practitioners can instead consider reframing the question: ‘What’s getting in the way of living the way The cumulative effects of adverse childhood you might want to, and what can help?’ This reframing experiences and the toxic stress they cause, shifts the focus away from the family and children to influence all aspects of health and wellbeing in reposition the constraints (what’s getting in the. [...] It means that therapeutic work can become a collaboration between the practitioner and family to help family members identify and address Bidirectional nature of distress and the obstacles they are facing. [...] The not know about those barriers and how might questions are designed to support you to use this it be possible for you to find out? How can you resource in your work with families in a way that: respond to these barriers through collaborative • practice or appropriate referral? explores what they already know, what skills they already have, and the values which inform their – What did reading th. [...] reshaping your service delivery in a way that improves access for families experiencing financial Reflective practice disadvantage? Consider the following: • Is your service public transport accessible? We encourage you to think reflectively about your practice and propose asking the families you work • Are you able to provide transit vouchers or with and yourself the following questions in using. [...] • Are your contact and intake procedures accessible for folks who are not literate or Note speak less English? The stories in these resources are snapshots of • Is your service child-friendly for families the lived experiences of the families who helped without access to childcare? us create them – other families will have different • How much do you know about the other stories to share.
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