Literature Review: Sport-Based Mentoring Programs for Preventing Youth Offending

An exploration of trauma-informed terminology

The Alliance of Sport contributed to this resource and we’d like to draw particular attention to the ‘trauma thermology’ diagram on page 12 which shows the spectrum of operationalisation of trauma-informed approaches.

Dr Alex Walker, Vicky J. Jones and Joanne C. Hopkins have authored the report, produced by the Adverse Childhood Experience Support Hub Cymru with funding from Public Health Wales.

The ACE Support Hub was established in 2017 and has been funded by Welsh Government for the last four years to increase awareness of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and bring about systems transformation to prevent, mitigate and tackle the impact of ACEs across the life course.

Introduction

The ACE Support Hub (hereafter, “the ACE Hub”) was established in 2017 and has been funded by Welsh Government for the last four years to increase awareness of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and bring about systems transformation to prevent, mitigate and tackle the impact of ACEs across the life course. The ACE Hub’s annual report highlights how much progress has been made in the last year relating to ACE awareness in Wales. Six hundred schools in Wales have received ACE training. Further, findings from the National Survey into knowledge and ACEs found that 78% of respondents understood what ACEs are (ACE Support Hub, 2021).

Welsh Government’s “Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences Policy Report” (hereafter, “the report”) has highlighted a breadth of work that has been done in Wales in relation to ACEs (Welsh Government, 2021), with promising findings. The report also found that ACEs awareness was satisfactory across the board, and the next steps are to raise awareness of “what works” to prevent, and support people with, ACEs.

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