Trauma Awareness Network Australia

23/11/2023

ONLY THE BEGINNING
Well it's all been packed away, cleaned up and ready for the next paranaple event. Words cannot express our gratitude towards the many who were able to come and support this event! From 5:30 pm onwards, a river of folks travelled up the escalators, to the paranaple convention centre and it was breathtaking! There were even folks who came and couldn't stay, but donated anyway! We at TANA are humbled by the generosity shown by so many.

We would particularly like to thank our major sponsors: Tasports, Fairbrother Foundation and the Devonport City Council. We would also like to thank the numerous Devonport businesses who so willingly contributed to our fundraising efforts.

It was great to see so many beautiful people from all walks of life from around the state. My favourite memory will be the children and families engaging in singing, dancing and circus activities! A big thank you, also, to the very accommodating in-house Escalator Catering crew, led by the talented Hussein! Everyone was delighted with the food, which seemed to keep coming out all night long! Except for the Escalator Caterers, I have deliberately not mentioned any other names to be thanked for fear of missing someone. Believe me, there were so many! If you want to see the scale of support, go to this link: https://youtu.be/X3TknPNTbY4The

TANA fundraising target of $5000 was met and our plans to train 12 facilitators will begin. How exciting!

Lastly, there were more than 100 volunteers who donated their time, talent and energy towards making the evening a huge success: much gratitude to all involved! What a beginning it was!

15/11/2023

This Saturday Nov 18th, 6-11pm, along with all the other amazing things happening, Haley Crawford will be at our event to enlighten us about the power of dancing!

She will be demonstrating Nia dance and encouraging people to join in. Nia is a mix of expressive dance, aerobic exercise and martial arts style movement. It is a gentle, uplifting & empowering movement practice that blends the latest body-mind science with timeless wisdom; a dynamic and heart-opening embodiment practice that celebrates joy and vitality. Soulful music, great moves, beautiful people. Nia invites you to let your spirit soar!

Hayley loves to connect with people through the universal language of dance. She offers Nia classes in Launceston and Port Sorell. Classes will soon start in Devonport in Feb 2024!

REMINDER: This event is a fundraiser for TANA. Tickets for Only The Beginning are available at: www.tana.net.au. There will also be door sales on the night!

03/11/2023

18/04/2023

Australia's first Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS) release! Go to the website for infographics and summaries: https://www.acms.au/

TANA has been calling for Australian data since we founded in 2018. When we first met Professor Ben Mathews he had just received federal funding for this study and five years later, the findings are in and they support what TANA has been talking about.

"We can and must invest more, and wisely, in universal prevention at the population level..."

With common knowledge of the science, we become trauma conscious citizens who can work together to come up with much-needed solutions.

Go to the ACMS website to find out more https://www.acms.au/

It is time to build the groundswell for a trauma conscious Australia. It is time for the people to be heard, with compassion, and to rebuild broken systems with policies that promote resilience and enable thriving.

The Australian Child Maltreatment study (ACMS) is the FIRST Australian prevalence study of child maltreatment. This research will play critical role in generating data to inform policy and practice reforms to reduce child abuse and neglect in Australia.

30/07/2022

Dear TANA Community,

Thank you for 'liking' us here. We see you and we know you are here and we are so grateful.

There is no current active member who is social media savvy. If you see this and you are open to offering some volunteer hours to responding on this page, we would love to hear from you.

We know what we want to achieve through social media, and that is rasing awareness of complex trauma and resilience. We share the science. It is so powerful as it underpins everything we need as humanity. It crosses all cultural and ideological boundaries and cuts to the core of being human and being in community.

Widespread trauma-awareness is a critical underpinning for what we need globally. People will be better helped and feel better supported and be better able to support others when we all understand the core of human wellbeing. When we understand the core of human design and our absolute need for each other. TANA's trauma-awareness is ready to offer that to as many people as we can.

TANA is for everything that unifies people and supports no thing that divides us.

Thank you for clicking 'like' and viewing our page.

We are ready, now, for more active members. If you feel you could be on our list of active volunteers to pick up small tasks to keep us moving towards our mission of making complex trauma common knowledge by 2030, please message us here.

Widespread trauma-awareness will dissolve the stigma and the shame people feel about what happened to them in childhood. If you got through it, you know that some experiences don't just go away as time passes. Unresolved, untreated experiences can make us sick. We can be part of the solution to some of the suffering people are experiencing.

TANA is ready to scale up and reach a million people or more. Reply if you feel you can offer a bit of time. We have been working diligently behind-the-scenes, in our unpaid hours, to figure out a grassroots solution and we have landed with great clarity in 2022.

We are a network and you may have something to add from your experience. From your skillset.

We need funding now to be fully operational. Co-founder, Brigid, put it well. We have a built the vehicle. Now all we need is fuel.

Grant writers needed. We are going to learn this together. If you'd like to join us from the beginning of this chapter, do it! We would love to have you. Reach out. Send us a message and we'll be in touch.

Happy weekend to you and yours.

Sue
Co-founder and President

21/03/2022

TANA CatholicCare Burnie Communities for Children Forum Cancelled. Workshops to go ahead as planned.

We are sorry to inform everyone that we have been forced to cancel today's event as both of our presenters, Sue and Brigid, tested positive for Covid on the weekend and are obliged to be isolated for seven days. We are so pleased that so many people registered. Thank you!

FYI, there will be a component of the forum in our workshops and so you may now wish to register.

We have decided to manage this unforeseen circumstance by increasing the capacity of our upcoming Workshops. We will adjust Workshop 1 March 29 th to incorporate the core information in the first half of the session and we will operate from the assumption that this is new information for all participants. If this information is not new for you, we know that the value of repetition cannot be emphasised enough.

The second half of Workshop 1 will be planning how to start using this information in your context or practice with the opportunity to ask questions and share insights with your group at Workshop 2, on Tuesday 12 April.

We do hope that you are able to attend The Point next week on Tuesday 29 March at The Point, West Park Oval.

Register here if you haven't already: https://drct-tana.prod.supporterhub.net/pages/burnie-communities-for-chidlren-forum-2022

Any questions email mike@tana.net.au

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

17/12/2021

On behalf of the TANA Committee and all our supporters, we express our deep-felt sadness at the devastating loss of life in Devonport yesterday. We are quietly sending love.

21/10/2021

On behalf of TANA, we wish to offer our condolences to the families and friends of the young people recently lost in such tragic circumstances. It is such a loss to our community, our heart goes out to you. Rest in peace.

13/10/2021

Save the date! This weekend:
Saturday, 16 October 9:45 – 11:45am
LIVE from Tennessee on Zoom

Trauma Awareness Network Australia presents:
Becky Haas Keynote https://tanapresentsbeckyhaaskeynote.eventbrite.com.au
Be part of the solution to the mental health crisis gripping our communities.
TANA is a grassroots charity for raising awareness about complex trauma, educating about complex trauma and its effects, and advocating for policies for upstream prevention and to mitigate its effects, while developing resilient, thriving communities.
Just as public health responses to COVID-19 have been crucial to protect Australians’ physical health, public mental health initiatives will be essential for full social and economic recovery. Indeed, the first of the three U.N. recommendations for post-COVID-19 recovery is to apply a ‘whole-of-society’ approach to promote, protect, and care for mental health (United Nations, 2020).
TANA has developed a whole-of-society approach using the science of trauma, resilience and community thriving. Find out how and be involved if you want to be a person a positive influence in your community. Unless a program is trauma-informed, it is limited in its capacity for success.
The USA has 361 trauma-informed networks in 45 states as August 2021. TANA has partnered with two of those networks who have trained extensively to trauma-inform a region and a state.
We have Becky Haas, from Tennessee, acclaimed pioneer in building in trauma-informed communities. She has trained extensively across the whole spectrum of community groups and is especially experienced in trauma-training for police.
TANA met Becky in 2019 when co-founder, Mike Lizotte, visited Tennessee to witness the results first-hand. Becky’s generosity in training TANA to deliver training across Australia is a huge win for all Australians.
TANA’s mission is to create active, trauma-informed, place based collective impact groups in communities large and small.
We envisage a nationwide rollout, beginning in Burnie Tasmania, of free-to-participants trauma-informed training, using a train the trainer model.
This model builds the capability of community members everywhere to strengthen their own communities in a sustainable way. The agents of change are from and in the community.
TANA is grassroots – we eliminate the shame by trauma-informing everybody.

Statistics show at least 70% of adults have experienced some form of trauma. Learn how to build resilience in the people in your community.

30/06/2019

Looking forward to sitting down with some beautiful caring people this Wednesday night in Penguin. Many thanks to Sinead Fahey for the use of her office!
TANA is most certainly growing in strength and numbers and this is what it will take to bring about healing. Peace, love and understanding to you all, Mike

07/05/2019

it's been a busy time behind the scenes meeting various politicians, getting legal advice and promoting trauma awareness policy and practice- along with all our daily demands of parenting,working and super Mike organising amazing musical events. We're getting legal advice on what we can and cannot do, given insurances and qualifications- and our most important priority is to do no harm.

What we can do is to promote the scientific factual information about the effects on the body and the brain of living in a state of stress and threat.
What we can promote is developing understanding of ourselves and others through getting professional support.
And of course, we can encourage our politicians and leaders to collaborate together to consider the information available and implement policies based on the long term prevention of such stressful conditions that some of us find ourselves born into or fallen into.
Given what is now known about who the brain adapts to stress,feeling threatened or unsafe, it takes encouragement from people in our democracy to demand these changes.

At least we can try!! Thanks for considering it.