Our Trauma-Informed Approach at Hull Services

Within Trauma-Informed Services (TIS) at Hull Services, clinical practice and service delivery employ the core concepts of the NM and Trauma-Informed Care guiding principles. Clinicians within TIS have backgrounds in Psychology, Counselling, Social Work and Marriage and Family Therapy and have received extensive training in the Neurosequential Model.

Trauma-Informed Services provides a wide variety of supports to each of the programs at Hull as well as to the community beyond Hull Services. At Hull, the type of services provided include (but are not limited to) clinical supervision, reflective practice, research support, training and educational support, assessment using the NMT Metric, case consultation, and therapy. Services provided to programs vary depending on need .

Trauma Informed Services can support individuals, caregivers, educators, and mental health professionals looking to understand how an individual’s history of developmental trauma can impact social, emotional, cognitive, and relational development.

Trauma-Informed Care Guiding Principles for Service Delivery

Our trauma-informed care guiding principles for service delivery at Hull Services are derived primarily from the Neurosequential Model (NM) framework, with contributions from other luminaries in the field. While our work in the NM approach at Hull Services recognizes that no one framework or model can fully capture the range of programs and service delivery that Hull provides, our lens for clinical practice and service delivery utilizes a significant number of core concepts in the NM framework prominently impacting our practice.

Our trauma-informed care guiding principles for service delivery are divided into four areas. These include:

  1. Relationships and connections for the people we work with
  2. Encouraging the well-being of the whole person
  3. Creating a therapeutic environment
  4. Trauma-informed leadership