Featured Stories

Members of the Louisville Trauma Resilient Project Team during a cohort learning event.

Featured Stories

Building Trauma Resilience,
One City At A Time

The idea of building trauma-informed organizations has been a top priority of many for years. But what would it look like to have a city that was trauma-responsive and focused on building resilience? That was the five million dollar question that led the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities to Louisville, Kentucky.

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Belonging and Learning: My Crossnore Communities for Children Journey and the Founding of the Center for Trauma Resilient Communities

by David McCorkle, LCSW
Co-Founder and Senior Faculty, Crossnore CTRC

In 2009 I was invited to visit the Crossnore School in my role as an Organizational Consultant for the Sanctuary Institute. As an organizational consultant, I was disbursed to various sites around the country and abroad. I then had the opportunity to work in North Carolina, where I grew up and went to college, and where I spent a summer on the Cherokee Reservation as an actor in the drama Unto These Hills, depicting the displacement of the Cherokee from their homelands along what was known as the “trail of tears”.

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A Trauma Resilient Paradigm Shift

by Micha James
Advocate, Leader and TRC Community Champion

Grace, forgiveness, healing, and the adage of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” are a few words I heard as a child and what life constantly reminds me of as a daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, cousin, sister-in-law, friend, mother, colleague, collaborator, advocate and lifelong resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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