Working towards safe and sacred care

<p dir="ltr">This toolkit is for clinicians, managers or project officers from maternity services that provide care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. It is designed to help services to implement and improve culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed continuity of care/r, an approach that helps families offer children the best start in life, promote healing from trauma and reduce health inequities.1-3 The toolkit is part of the Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) project. Toolkit development was guided by a working group, pilot tests at maternity sites and findings from an RBT scoping review4 of resources currently available to support culturally responsive, trauma-aware, healing-informed continuity of care/r. The toolkit describes the key pillars and processes that support positive perinatal health outcomes and experiences for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.</p>