Organizers of Be the Healing: Becoming a Trauma-Informed and Responsive Community
Bronzeville Partners: Bright Star Community Outreach, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and 29Eleven Consulting
Bright Star Community Outreach (BSCO) is the leading agency and convener working with multiple partners to help Bronzeville become a trauma informed and responsive community. Their strategy includes developing impactful community development projects aimed at facing our largest societal challenges: violence in our communities, poor economic opportunity and instability, homelessness, child safety, and drug abuse. BSCO’s current and major initiative, TURN (The Urban Resilience Network) Center, inspired by NATAL in Israel, is dedicated to serving Chicago with counseling and other social services aimed at minimizing negative factors that cause violence and increasing protective influences that yield positive outcomes. It endeavors to focus on five core competencies: counseling, parenting, mentorship, work-force development and advocacy. Its unique model will utilize faith leaders as post-trauma counselors and use community surveys as the basis for services that directly correspond to the unique needs of constituents.
Initiative Sponsors: Chicago Baha'i Community and Sarowitz Family Fund
Initiative Partners: BSCO, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and 29Eleven Consulting
Event Sponsors: All in One Race Initiative, Bright Star Community Outreach, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, ComeUnity Based Solutions, Engage Civil Incorporated, Environmentalist of Color, Health for Humanity, Intonation, UCAN, and ViaYou
Be the Healing is a year-long community initiative that trains a cross-sector of the community about racism, mental health, and healing to help build capacity for sustainable change. Participants are encouraged to learn, act, and reflect together with their new understanding from the various trainings in hopes of "repairing the village" as indicated by Dr. DeGruy. By addressing this as a collective, participants will be more successful with decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors within education, employment, general health, family structures, and community networks.
Next Training: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Register here
Bronzeville Partners: Bright Star Community Outreach, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and 29Eleven Consulting
Bright Star Community Outreach (BSCO) is the leading agency and convener working with multiple partners to help Bronzeville become a trauma informed and responsive community. Their strategy includes developing impactful community development projects aimed at facing our largest societal challenges: violence in our communities, poor economic opportunity and instability, homelessness, child safety, and drug abuse. BSCO’s current and major initiative, TURN (The Urban Resilience Network) Center, inspired by NATAL in Israel, is dedicated to serving Chicago with counseling and other social services aimed at minimizing negative factors that cause violence and increasing protective influences that yield positive outcomes. It endeavors to focus on five core competencies: counseling, parenting, mentorship, work-force development and advocacy. Its unique model will utilize faith leaders as post-trauma counselors and use community surveys as the basis for services that directly correspond to the unique needs of constituents.
Initiative Sponsors: Chicago Baha'i Community and Sarowitz Family Fund
Initiative Partners: BSCO, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, and 29Eleven Consulting
Event Sponsors: All in One Race Initiative, Bright Star Community Outreach, Bronzeville Community Action Council, Chicago Bahá’í Community, Chicago Police Department, ComeUnity Based Solutions, Engage Civil Incorporated, Environmentalist of Color, Health for Humanity, Intonation, UCAN, and ViaYou
Be the Healing is a year-long community initiative that trains a cross-sector of the community about racism, mental health, and healing to help build capacity for sustainable change. Participants are encouraged to learn, act, and reflect together with their new understanding from the various trainings in hopes of "repairing the village" as indicated by Dr. DeGruy. By addressing this as a collective, participants will be more successful with decreasing risk factors and increasing protective factors within education, employment, general health, family structures, and community networks.
Next Training: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Register here