Our five-year goal is to improve social and emotional wellbeing, family functioning and resilience in families and communities disproportionately impacted by intergenerational trauma and family violence. In the longer term, our aim is to contribute to reversal of the current upward trends in rates of suicide, self-harm and mental health disorders in children and young people.
Our Priority Areas
Priority 1
Impact of intergenerational trauma and family violence
The Stronger Futures CRE is committed to reducing impacts of intergenerational trauma and family violence on individuals, families and communities. An important foundation for this work is understanding the experiences of people whose lives are impacted by these issues.
Priority 2
Trauma-informed approaches to care
Disruption of cycles of intergenerational trauma and family violence requires co-ordinated action and systems change at many levels. We are working with partner organisations to build a stronger evidence-base, tools and resources for the integration of trauma-informed principles and approaches in health and social care settings.
Priority 3
Resilience and prevention
Research often focus on factors that pose risk to health and wellbeing. Projects in this priority are working with partner organisations to codesign and evaluate strategies to promote resilience and disrupt intergenerational cycles of trauma and social inequity.
Priority 4
Healing and recovery from complex trauma
Our major focus in this priority area is to work with partner organisations to co-design, implement and evaluate ‘best practice’ strategies for healing and recovery from intergenerational trauma and Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD).