National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health - Practitioner guide: Money, housing and

It means that therapeutic work can become a collaboration between the practitioner and The cumulative effects of adverse childhood family to help family members identify and address experiences and the toxic stress they cause, the obstacles they are facing. [...] Reflection questions to ask yourself How to use these resources – What do you know about the barriers the families These resources and the following reflection you support are up against? What might you questions have been created using an approach not know about those barriers and how might informed by collective narrative practice. [...] The it be possible for you to find out? How can you questions are designed to support you to use this respond to these barriers through collaborative resource in your work with families in a way that: practice or appropriate referral? • – What did reading this resource have you thinking explores what they already know, what skills they about differently? In what way might your practice already hav. [...] improves access for families experiencing financial disadvantage? Consider the following: Reflective practice • Is your service public transport accessible? We encourage you to think reflectively about your • Are you able to provide transit vouchers or practice and propose asking the families you work food vouchers? with and yourself the following questions in using the money, housing and health r. [...] • Are your contact and intake procedures accessible for folks who are not literate or speak less English? Note • Is your service child-friendly for families without access to childcare? The stories in these resources are snapshots of the lived experiences of the families who helped • How much do you know about the other us create them – other families will have different services in your area that.