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In the coming years, the Israeli healthcare system is likely to face the challenge of unprecedented rates of trauma among patients and medical staff.
In the coming years, the Israeli healthcare system is likely to face the challenge of unprecedented rates of trauma among patients and medical staff.
System
Broader promotion o Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) in the healthcare system, building an organizationally trauma-sensitive and resilient infrastructure.
Patient
Creating a care experience grounded in trust, choice, and safety, while recognizing how trauma shapes people's engagement with the medical system
Practitioner
Supporting the well-being of care teams and equipping them with tools to manage secondary trauma and prevent burnout.
About the Forum
The Forum for Advancing a Trauma-Informed Healthcare System was established in June 2023. It currently brings together leading organizations from civil society, the healthcare system, and academia, with additional organizations in the process of joining.
The Forum works across several tracks to embed trauma-informed care principles throughout the healthcare system:
Promoting health, preventing illness, extending life expectancy, and improving quality of life.
Gender, cultural, civic, and national equity
Promoting safety and creating a protected environment
Building trust and transparency in decision-making
Collaboration, solidarity, and mutual support
Emphasis on empowerment and providing choice
A focus on strengths, resilience, health, and hope
We aim to partner with a range of organizations and stakeholders, including healthcare providers, patients, health institutions, and government bodies.
All of these are essential to creating and sustaining the change our system needs.
Our Vision
According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of people experiencing at least one traumatic event in their lives is higher than 70%. Trauma can have a significant impact on both physical and emotional health, leading to increased morbidity, shortened lifespan, and changed patterns of thought, communication, and behavior. For people who have experienced a traumatic event in the past, seeking medical services can be difficult. Some may avoid it altogether, while others may excessively use it. However, if healthcare providers are not sensitive to the patient's history of trauma, it can lead to feelings of anxiety, misunderstanding, and disappointment. This can hinder the patient's health, as they may not seek follow-up treatment and preventive medicine.
A trauma-informed healthcare system strives to provide a safe environment for patients and healthcare professionals, preventing re-traumatization and secondary trauma.
Trauma-informed healthcare assumes that many individuals have undergone at least one traumatic event. The approach takes into account the effects of trauma on physical, mental, and behavioral outcomes.
A trauma-informed healthcare system actively seeks to create a safe healthcare environment, reducing the risk of patients experiencing re-traumatization and healthcare professionals experiencing secondary trauma.
The Forum for Promoting Trauma-Informed Healthcare aims to facilitate healthcare that is aware of trauma and its effects on patients and providers.
Safety
Ensuring both physical and psychological safety for staff and individuals seeking services.
Trustworthiness and Transparency
Building trust through clear, consistent, and honest communication, ensuring that operations are open and understandable.
Peer Support and Mutual Self-Help
Using shared experiences of trauma and recovery to build trust, ensure safety, and foster connection.
Collaboration and Mutuality
Minimizing power differentials between staff and service users and emphasizing that healing occurs through shared decision-making.
Empowerment, Voice, and Choice
Focusing on validating strengths, fostering resilience, and enabling individuals to make decisions about their treatment and care.
Cultural, Historical, and Gender Issues
Moving beyond cultural stereotypes, recognizing historical trauma, and providing culturally responsive services that affirm individual identity.
The Forum will include and collaborate with various organizations and groups, including healthcare providers, patients, and health and government institutions. These channels are all crucial for creating and maintaining necessary changes in the system
The right to health is one of the most fundamental human rights. Only a healthcare system adapted to the effects of trauma can make that right a reality for everyone.
Member organizations
The cross-sector partnership is composed of organizations from the civil and public sectors, working together to achieve the shared goal of a trauma-informed healthcare system.
Resources
Further Reading
Here you will find links to relevant resources and additional reading on Trauma-Informed Care, as well as research on trauma and its effects more broadly.
Contact Us
We will be happy to receive inquiries through the attached form with questions, comments or thoughts regarding trauma-adapted treatment and the forum's activity
Contact Us
We will be happy to receive inquiries through the attached form with questions, comments or thoughts regarding trauma-adapted treatment and the forum's activity
