COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY IMPACT
Winston-Salem, NC
In January 2020, The Center for Trauma Resilient Communities began actively engaging community leaders within Winston-Salem, North Carolina, aiming to build and sustain a trauma-resilient community. Starting with a handful of organizations, this movement has grown to embrace hundreds of individuals representing over forty organizations. Fifty-one community members have gone even further with their TRC embedding practices and have become champions of change. In addition, the Winston-Salem Forsyth County school district has joined in these efforts, working to become a trauma-resilient educational system, benefitting not just its students but its teachers and staff.
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust (KBR)
Since 2020, CTRC has partnered with the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to find sustainable ways to support the trauma-informed movement across the Winston-Salem Community. Currently, KBR is supporting the Winston-Salem Trauma Resilient Community (WS-TRC) initiative, seeking to reduce the occurrences and impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress amongst children from birth to eleven years old.
Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust has been integral in grant support to aid in data collection from community and community partners to advance collective change across organizations and systems serving children and their families. The next three years of the Winston-Salem Trauma Resilient Community initiative will continue to focus on embedding and embodying the shared knowledge, skills, practices, and leadership development that lead to trauma-resilient organizations and a trauma-resilient community.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
In 2023, CTRC, in partnership with Action for Equity, Crossnore Communities for Children, Center for Trauma Resilient Communities, and Forsyth Futures, received a 4-year grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCAST) program. We Heal Together Winston-Salem Initiative is one of only seven grantees awarded this national grant in fiscal year 2024. Funding for this project is approximately $1 million each fiscal year.
We Heal Together will address the needs specifically in East Winston-Salem and co-create a community-centered approach through the following goals:
- Increase participation of East Winston residents and stakeholders in community-based research to identify the community’s needs and resources;
- Enhance trauma-informed systems of care through training the Trauma Resilient Communities Model to Backbone Agencies serving East Winston,
- Reduce high-risk behaviors and increase protective factors for East Winston youth exposed to adversity and trauma by implementing a comprehensive mentoring strategy;
- Increase first responders’ and youth-involved workers’ knowledge of youth mental health risk factors through training to improve their outreach and interactions with East Winston youth;
- Increase the capacity of mental health and health practitioners working in East Winston to incorporate trauma-informed care approaches into their youth and family services and
- Evaluate the impact of the project.
Winston-Salem Opportunities
Interested in Partnering as A Winston-Salem Backbone Agency?
We are excited to share two opportunities for collaboration with the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities (CTRC) as a Backbone Agency (BBA). By partnering with We Heal Together Winston-Salem (WHT-WS) or the Winston-Salem Trauma Resilient Communities (WS-TRC) Initiative, your agency can make a difference in building a resilient community in Winston-Salem.
We Heal Together Winston-Salem (WHT-WS) is a 4-year collaborative community partnership between Action4Equity, Crossnore’s Center for Trauma Resilient Communities, and Forsyth Futures. We are seeking interest from organizations engaged in serving youth in East Winston-Salem, ages 12 to 17, to work towards promoting resilience and equity through a lens of prevention and engagement with behavioral health services. You can find more information HERE.
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The Winston-Salem Trauma Resilient Community (WS-TRC) is a 3-year initiative that seeks to meet the goals set by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to reduce the occurrences and impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress amongst children in East Winston-Salem. We are seeking interest from organizations serving youth ages birth to eleven years old. You can find more information HERE.
