Recommendations to the National Governors' Association Meeting

Happy Thursday!

Thank you for your feedback regarding the National Governor’s Association. Based on feedback and prior conversations the following three recommendations were sent to the Health Federation of Philadelphia on behalf of the San Diego Trauma Informed Guide Team Leadership as multi-generational, multi-sectoral approaches that could improve the quality of life of children:

1. The authentic engagement of community members of all ages when shaping programs and policies. Examples of programs that authentically engage the community include Trauma Informed Community Schools like the Cherokee Point Elementary School in San Diego, CA and the Community Mentor Planning Institute. The institute is a six month collaborative, cross sector planning process that brings justice systems and community leaders together to develop a strategic plan for designing, resourcing, and implementing a Community Mentor initiative for justice-involved youth.
2. Use of trauma informed and resilience building language for communicating across sectors and throughout practice, program, and policy levels so that this language becomes integrated into multiple fields, disciplines, and communities.
3. Ensuring that trauma informed and resilience building training is a requirement in all public entities and agencies that are contracted to provide public services. Trauma Informed/Resilience building Trainings should be based on SAMHSA’s framework and include emerging best practices in the field as they evolve to address issues across the lifespan. For example, the collective impact framework including advocacy, social justice, and authentic community engagement.

Please join us tomorrow,  Friday, March 3 from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM at the San Diego Center for Children! Part of the meeting will be focused on discussing policy and our ability to influence it.