"Trauma-informed practice is a strengths-based approach for organizations that acknowledges the pervasiveness of trauma and the risk and potential for people to be retraumatized through engagement with organizations such as archives and seeks to minimize triggers and negative interactions. It provides a framework of safety and offers a model of collaboration and empowerment that recognizes and centres the expertise of the individuals and communities documented within the records held in archives." Wright and Laurent (2021)
Introduction to and information about the Irish Community for Trauma-Informed Archival Pratice.
Links to guidance to
to provide assistance to recordkeepers to manage secondary trauma and to support professionals to develop person-centred approaches to archival work
Notice of online and in person meetings and news.