Based on Trauma specific care

Mona is 19 years old unmarried woman. Mona was referred to our organization by her one of immediate family members as was started to keep quiet and isolated. She didn’t smile very readily and preferred not to hanging out at the edge of her friends and family. She didn’t initiate conversation either; she generally waited until someone approached her. She rarely spoke to her immediate family members and tended to do so when others weren’t around. She didn’t get excited over things like others.

After attending several sessions with our psychiatrist, psychologists and after-hour mental health social workers, Mona has changed her life. Mona's childhood trauma experiences were negatively influenced her a lot and got to know that she has coped with at least one adverse childhood experience. These events include physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse, feeling unloved or unwanted by one’s family and being afraid that basic needs like having food and shelter won’t be met, coping with separation or divorce of caregivers, and having someone in the home get incarcerated.

For Mona, counsellors, therapists and clinicians together did offer trauma-informed care likely have a deeper understanding of the complex nature of trauma. And it was positively effects on the healing journey through the 5 Principles of Trauma-Informed Care such as

 Safety

 Trustworthiness and Transparency

 Peer Support

 Collaboration and Mutuality

 Empowerment, Voice and Choice

Why Trust a Trauma-Informed Care Provider?

Because Mona has change her behaviour after our trauma specific care treatment. Now, she has become a self-independent and extravert young lady who is planning to study for her dream job. Now Mona’s future goal is to become a child care worker and currently she is working on that goal. Therefore, it is a proven example in our community how our mental health care officers work to shape up her life.