For months, Rural Opportunity Institute co-founders Seth Saeugling and Vichi Jagannathan have gathered Tarboro community members, interviewed families and leaders, and analyzed research around intergenerational trauma in a Pattillo Middle School office.
“Where we’re headed is to really identify where is the leverage?” Saeugling said. “What’s the North Star and how can we all start rowing in the same direction when it comes to trauma and trying to provide healing opportunities?”
On Tuesday, healthcare providers, pastors, education leaders, and other Tarboro residents met to dissect a map of the largest issues in their community.
Karen Grattan, CEO and co-founder of Engaging Inquiry, led the group through “systems thinking” practices that allow analyzation of a larger system before focusing in on one solution. Groups of three or four community members took one “leverage point” and identified what is already happening in the community and how those resources can be used to shift negative patterns of trauma.
For more of EducationNC reporter Liz Bell's continuing coverage of this story on community-based efforts to disrupt multigenerational trauma, please click here.
To see her video report and interview with Seth Saeugling and community members, please click here.
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