Trauma is both emotionally and physiologically dysregulating. Holding space—providing safety, warmth, comfort, and connection—creates opportunity for co-regulation helping to regulate difficult emotions. Thank you Kristin Wiens for this image.

From the BtG Newsroom, Newsletter number 7. A chocolate themed quiz,the power of water and one service users story of his journey so far @NPSNEPD #OPD #HMPPS

A huge thank you to our clients who have contributed to our November Newsletter. A powerful account of leaving prison in COVID times and a moving poem.Another quiz and jokes too@NPSNEPD@HullProbation@NPS_NorthYorks#HMPPS

The Team are sad to say good bye to our Clinical Lead. You have been such an important part of BtG from the very beginning. Good luck and Best wishes for your next venture. We will miss you and Cat Therapy #EndingsBeginnings

Team meeting this afternoon with a Xmas theme & OPD quiz, great to have some team fun! #OPDpathway #enablingenvironments #ChristmasJumperDay #PIPE

Let’s try and raise this issue for IPPs in 2021, they deserve JUSTICE!

The results of BtG team Christmas carols quiz - We are both melancholic and sanguine and pleased to have won a braying donkey #betterthings ahead

‘Be the lightness in the dark ‘A very fitting theme to mark Holocaust Memorial Day #LightTheDarkness and light a candle in memory of the victims.

Goodbye to Petra from Southview PIPE. You have made such a difference and leave an amazing legacy. Good luck from all your OPD colleagues @NPS_NE_AP

If you missed Paul Gilbert OBE's appearance on The One Show last night you can catch up with BBC player. We thought it was a brilliant segment on the work he and others have done with jaaq.co.uk, we're thrilled to see such a great resource gain national attention!

Pleased to have contributed this article (co-authored with Sam Ainslie & others) to upcoming special issue from Probation Journal on COVID and probation: ‘I don't like this job in my front room’: Practising probation in the COVID-19 pandemic journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

Exciting day sending our wonderful Admin worker off on maternity leave yesterday! We will miss you! #nathasleftthebuilding

George the Poet kicks off his speech with a poem about rap. It recounts a conversation in Brixton prison in 2015. #longford2021

February 2022 Newsletter - mailchi.mp/compassionatem…

Great to welcome another Student Social worker to the BtG team. #learningtogetther Bridging the Gap

Beautiful #poetry by one of our clients about the crisis in the Ukraine

We are advertising for an Interventions worker to join Bridging the gap. A great opportunity to work in our supportive & multi-disciplinary team.inspirenorth.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/27…