What is the Trauma Awareness campaign?

A community engagement campaign aimed at helping individuals who have been suffering both mentally and physically from the impacts of Coronavirus. The campaign will embrace the values of the community, drawing on how individuals were able to pull together throughout the pandemic, coming to the aid of vulnerable people in their communities. The campaign will also be based around compassion, understanding, and building a kinder Neath as we recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. I am asking individuals, organisations, businesses and schools to take the simple pledge: Be kind, think of others and Ask for help if you need it. This will raise awareness of the importance of mental health in all age groups. The Campaign will be held in partnership with Neath Port Talbot Mind.

How can I get involved?

If you would like to sign your business, organisation, school or yourself up to the campaign, please email my office: Jeremy.Miles@senedd.wales. I will then be able to send you the following resources which you will be able to use.

Trauma Awareness Poster. This will be tailored depending on whether you are a business, organisation, school or individual:

Trauma Awareness Three Point Pledge:

What does it mean to be ‘Trauma Aware’ information sheet:

Resources to organisations out there to help, if you or somebody else needs help:

Businesses, organisations and schools who have signed up:

• Neath Port Talbot Mind (cohost of the campaign)
• Neath Port Talbot Group of Colleges
• Ten21 BistroBar
• Resolven Building Blocks