Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma, from the Prevention Institute, outlines specific strategies to address and prevent community trauma—and foster resilience—using techniques from those living in affected areas.
Surviving Oppression/Healing Oppression describes trauma responses from those who are targets and agents of oppression and the need for trauma-responsive strategies.
Everyday Democracy created an interactive slide show detailing the principles and suggested actions of their Intergenerational Equity Framework to address intersectional oppressions and build authentic collective leadership. You can also download a PDF of the framework.
Launched in 2017, Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Greater Chicago is a cross-sector, community-driven process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism. Their framework synopsis includes helpful ideas for the planning and implementation process of creating collective change.
Shifting Power from the Inside Out shares one organization’s journey towards increasing representation of community members amongst leadership and staff; developing specific internal practices to ensure that immigrant women are encouraged to step up in organizational leadership; encouraging frank discussions about race, class, and power; ending practices of white supremacy that limit the leadership of people of color; and shifting towards a model of collaboration and authentic shared leadership. Learn more about this model here.
The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call or text 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453). Serving the U.S. and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. The hotline offers crisis intervention, information, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources for children and caregivers. All calls are anonymous and confidential.
Mental Health America of Virginia's Warm Line is a peer-run service for individuals, family members, and other concerned parties in Virginia who would like someone to talk to, or who request community mental health resources, or who have specific questions about their recovery journey. The peers who answer the Warm Line listen with compassion and provide non-judgmental support. Call 1-866-400-6428, Mon-Fri 9am-9pm and Sat-Sun 5pm-9pm.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides 24/7 support for survivors and their loved ones. Call 1-800-799-7233, use the website's live chat function, or text LOVEIS to 22522. They also provide services for those who are deaf and hard of hearing.
SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) offers a Disaster Distress Helpline for immediate crisis counseling for people who are experiencing emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster. For services in both English and Spanish, call 1-800-985-5990. To connect with a trained crisis counselor, text TalkWithUs (for English) or Hablanos (for Spanish) to 66746.
For questions and support, contact:
Melissa McGinn, MSW, LCSW
State Trauma Informed Community Networks Coordinator
mmcginn@grscan.com
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