Join us for our inaugural Speaker Series event with the Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma!
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 from 12-1pm ET
Register Here.
Event is free and open to the public.
Learn about Elaine’s Community Resiliency Model to prevent and heal trauma, supporting our mission to build safe, trusting, engaged, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and healthy communities where children and families thrive.
Elaine Miller-Karas is the Co-Founder and Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and author of the book, Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models (2015). She has worked internationally to bring healing to the world’s community. Her models to date have been brought to 75 countries in Asia, Africa, North America, Australia, the Mid-East, South America, and Europe. Ms. Miller-Karas is a recognized international speaker and author and has presented the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)® at the Skoll World Forum and the United Nations. Her book was selected by the United Nations curated online library as one of the innovations that can help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She also launched her successful radio show, Resiliency Within, on VoiceAmerica in 2021.
The Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma (CCWT) is a resource for child-serving organizations in Massachusetts, delivering trauma-informed and responsive (TIR) information, tools, and training.
The CCWT was established by the Massachusetts legislature in 2021 following recommendations made by the Office of the Child Advocate’s Childhood Trauma Task Force. The task force’s framework, including guiding principles and action steps, is available through the CCWT to these child-serving organizations as they support children and families.
The Office of the Child Advocate has partnered with Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting arm of the UMass Chan Medical School, to develop the CCWT and be a supportive resource to all child-serving organizations. The Center is led by Executive Director, Audrey Smolkin. Ms. Smolkin has over 20 years of experience in child and family programs and policies with expertise in trauma and more recently, a focus on racial equity, racial trauma, and resilience.
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