Presenters: Heidi Nagel – Senior Manager, Residential Care. Hana Mendonca – Senior Residential Care Worker. Red Ostle - Senior Residential Care Worker. Diane Honey - Senior Residential Care Worker. Abstract: This presentation focuses on how the Department’s Residential Group Home, Oakford House welcomes traumatised children placed in the home. Oakford House currently supports four females aged between 14 and 16 years old. When a child arrives at a Residential Group Home it’s important that they are welcomed in a way that is trauma informed and increases their feeling of safety in a new environment. The presentation will outline how the Sanctuary Framework has helped Oakford House build on practice of how traumatised children are welcomed into the home. It will provide practical examples of a Welcome Pack and Welcome Book, developed using the Sanctuary Framework SELF Model (Safety, Emotion, Loss and Future). The welcome process is a trauma informed approach that assists children placed at Oakford House in starting their healing journey.