Profile Information
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Country
United States
Postal Code
15206
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Upper School History Teacher and Co-Director of Surviving to Thriving Programs and a parent
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Winchester Thurston School
Founding Board Member of OMA Center for Mind, Body, Spirit Pittsburgh
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
Callie Gropp heads OMA Pittsburgh’s Surviving to Thriving Programs. A native of Pittsburgh, Callie earned a BA in History and African American/Black Studies from Oberlin College. She has been an educator since 2007, and increasingly she spends her time working to create awareness about trauma and abuse as a preventable and treatable public health issue. She believes that in order to break cycles of silence and harm, we must collaboratively respond to the collective arena of trauma and its effects throughout the generations. Through collaboration with individuals and organizations city-wide, she hopes show the possibilities that emerge when communities come together to provide all people with access to holistic, trauma-informed care. She believes that when we heal ourselves in the present, we heal the generations to come.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
OMA Pittsburgh's Surviving to Thriving Programs are designed to create awareness about the science of ACEs, trauma, and resilience. Surviving to Thriving Programs aim to connect all people with educational resources about ACEs, various forms of trauma, and abuse so that so that we can move from awareness to action and create pathways, practices, and policies that advance change and provide all people with access to holistic, trauma informed care so that all children, families, and communities can thrive.