FUTURE WORK PLAN HOPING TO COMMENCE EARLY 2009.

1. Ongoing development of an independent and strategic network of organisations working in the trauma recovery sector acting as a conduit between policy makers and the field.
2. The development of a central and flexible information centre for the sector and in particular its workers, in relation to service provision, best practice, discussion forums, sharing of expertise and advocacy to facilitate best practice in the future.
3. Engagement of trauma recovery organisations in work with the wider community in innovative approaches to understanding the past involving academics, youth, clergy, trauma specialists, counsellors, political activists, political ex prisoners and community organisations. This would include a series of events to mark the 40th anniversary of NI political conflict through song, poetry, drama, dance and dialogue.
4. To develop and promote a better understanding of trauma and its impact on communities by opening the debate on new approaches to trauma recovery, prevention and intervention examining links between political trauma and other aggression related traumas and celebrating the healing that has taken place over the last 40 years.
5. Through the support of a network approach and a series of seminars/ Information Fairs develop capacity on good clinical governance, standards, service level agreements and performance management to better equip the sector to assist the recovery process for victims/ survivors.