Trauma Responsive Behaviour Change Solutions.
Working with people in the Criminal Justice System.
Offering new strategies to cope with and overcome emotional pain.
We deliver a wide range of services across the U.K.
At Dignifi, we help people and organisations to recover from trauma in all its forms.
Our overarching aim is to remove the shame and stigma that is associated with experiences of trauma and adversity so we can create systems that effectively rehabilitate and avoid retraumatisation.
We work across sectors, supporting organisations to understand and address workplace stress, secondary and vicarious trauma, moral injury and change or compassion fatigue.
Helping people to recover from trauma and adversity.
What we do
Dignifi® was established in 2017 to support people and systems to recover from trauma and adversity. Our work spans from direct work with people through to work on reforming systems. We recognise that service delivery alone isn’t enough, we want to give the people who use our services a voice in shaping the future design and delivery of cross-sector solutions and innovative new ways of working.
Our model has been developed with lived experience to ensure services are trauma responsive for the people accessing them and the people delivering them. We offer a range of services to support recovery for organisations and teams who have experienced secondary trauma, vicarious trauma and systemic trauma in public services have been affected post-pandemic. Dignifi develops bespoke models of support to help organisations to actively recover.
The sectors we work in also have high numbers of traumatised people accessing services, we want to equip the workforce to see and respond differently to trauma symptoms that people present with. We support organisations to not only develop awareness, but to adapt policy and procedure to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation. We remove the stigma and shame associated to this topic so people can reach their full potential, regardless of previous experiences.
The Concept
The Dignifi® Model has been developed over the past 14 years using research and good practice from across the criminal justice, voluntary, community and social sectors. The Founder and Managing Director Julia Pennington has consulted with professionals in the fields of criminology, clinical forensic psychology, neuroscience, trauma and research to develop the concepts within our different practice models. In doing so, she has been able to align the model with the NICE principles for trauma informed approaches, whilst also embedding the voices of people she has worked with during her extensive career.
At Dignifi, we take a lived experience, non-clinical approach to addressing trauma: empowering people to understand how their body works and offering real strategies for emotional regulation. We remove the stigma associated to negative experiences by recognising that trauma and adversity is something that all of us will have experienced throughout our lives, and we will all adapt in different ways to cope. Our lived experience model emphasises that: supporting staff to develop the confidence to talk openly about their feelings, thereby creating a supportive working culture in teams, whilst removing the ‘othering’ towards the people they serve.
Training Courses
We offer a range of training courses that are prewritten and have been delivered before to other organisations. We also offer organisations the offer of a bespoke training course that will be designed and adapted to meet the issues you would like to address and/or place more emphasis on areas.
Services & Sectors
We recognise that no one is exempt from trauma we therefore do not limit our work to any one sector. We have a range of models that will support people of any age from any background.
