TARA trauma-informed practice

In 2025, Becky Hatchett worked as a creative partner on the TARA Project with University College Cork — a national initiative focused on embedding trauma-informed practice in child and family services.

Working closely with the project team, Becky developed a cohesive visual identity and design system, and co-designed a suite of resources created by frontline practitioners. These included tools such as reflective supervision materials, communication aids, and resources supporting children in foster care transitions.

While content was led by the TARA team, Becky’s role was to translate complex, practice-based knowledge into clear, cohesive, accessible and engaging visual formats — ensuring the materials were usable in real-world settings and across disciplines.

Her approach was collaborative and iterative, working alongside the team to shape outputs that reflected practitioner experience rather than applying design as a final layer.

At the Practice Initiatives Showcase Event in December 2025, Becky also contributed as a facilitator and live visual harvester, using creative engagement methods to encourage reflective feedback and capture key themes. The event marked a key milestone, showcasing co-created tools developed by 31 practitioners working across services in Dublin South Central.

This project reflects Becky’s approach as a creative partner — combining visual design, collaborative process and creative facilitation to support teams in developing and communicating meaningful, practice-led work.

The full resource will be open source and available from March 2026.

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Example page from resource