Impact Statement: Healing Together Programme
Healing Together is a trauma-informed, early intervention programme designed to respond to one of the most urgent and under-served needs within our systems: supporting children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
With an estimated 827,000 children affected in England and Wales in a single year, the scale of need is significant, yet access to timely, community-based, trauma-informed support remains limited.
Healing Together addresses this gap by equipping frontline practitioners across education, health, and social care with the knowledge, confidence, and tools to deliver a structured, evidence-informed intervention that meets children where they are without requiring them to revisit or retell traumatic experiences.
Grounded in neuroscience, relational practice, and body-based approaches, the programme focuses on building safety, connection, and regulation. Through six structured sessions delivered in trusted community settings, children begin to understand how their brain and body respond to safety and threat, develop emotional literacy, and learn practical, discreet strategies to regulate their responses.
The impact is both immediate and cumulative.
In the short term, children report feeling calmer, more connected, and better able to understand and express their emotions. Parents and carers experience reduced conflict and greater confidence, supported by a shared language that strengthens relationships within the home. Practitioners themselves grow in confidence, capability, and job satisfaction, equipped to embed trauma-informed principles into their daily practice.
Over time, these changes begin to shift trajectories.
Improved emotional regulation and a stronger sense of safety enable greater engagement in education, reduced risk of school exclusion, and increased help-seeking behaviours. Importantly, Healing Together is designed not just to support children in the moment, but to influence long-term outcomes, reducing the likelihood of mental health challenges, involvement in exploitation or violence, and ultimately breaking the cycle of intergenerational domestic abuse.
At its core, Healing Together is about creating the conditions for lasting change.
It is inclusive by design, co-created with children, and adaptable to meet diverse needs. It prioritises dignity, choice, and agency, ensuring children feel safe, seen, soothed, and supported.
This is not just a programme.