Blue Knot Foundation

To achieve its stated objectives, the Foundation has adopted a community approach to providing information and support for anyone who is affected by complex trauma. Complex trauma is repeated, ongoing, and often extreme interpersonal (between people) acts of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation. Complex trauma can be experienced as a child, young person or adult or across the lifespan. Blue Knot's approach to empowering recovery for survivors of complex trauma, and those who support them includes our helplines, resources, training, practice and organisational support, advocacy and awareness. We strive to engage with diverse stakeholders, and further build broad recognition as thought leaders and subjectmatter experts and to increase community and sector awareness around complex trauma and survivor needs. We do this in order that traumainformed and traumaspecific approaches become more common in the policies, practices and systems impacting on and responding to survivors and on our communities.