Trauma-Informed Care Advocacy Network (TICAN)

Advancing healing-centred, trauma-informed systems

Welcome to the Trauma-Informed Care Advocacy Network (TICAN).

We are a growing community of trained professionals, advocates, and partners committed to advancing trauma-informed, healing-centred approaches across systems, policies, and practices.

Trauma affects individuals, families, communities, and institutions. When systems are not designed with this reality in mind, they can unintentionally cause harm. The Trauma-Informed Care Advocacy Network (TICAN) exists to change that.

TICAN brings together trained professionals, advocates, and individuals with lived experience to promote trauma-informed values, ethical practice, and systems transformation across health, education, social services, justice, humanitarian response, and community development.

Who We Are For

TICAN is for:

  • Professionals trained in trauma-informed care

  • Advocates and leaders influencing systems and policy

  • Researchers and educators

  • Organisations seeking trauma-informed transformation

  • Individuals with lived experience who wish to contribute ethically

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Practice in Action

Advocacy Across Systems and Contexts

We work alongside national and international organisations, institutions, and professionals committed to embedding trauma-informed values into policy, leadership, and practice.

Our approach recognises that sustainable change does not come from quick fixes or surface-level interventions, but from thoughtful, ethical, and evidence-informed systems transformation.