Long term funding success of community trauma informed initiative

This platform has great potential for collecting data from across the nation. I'm very interested in some answers to your question Anne!

There are some programs in Oregon funded by  health insurers. They might be a model.

Thanks, Jody,

I know that Washington County has an established system.  Do you have any other specific examples? I know that Southern Oregon Success had started something, but I don't know how they are doing as of late.

La Crosse County, WI has been working since 2017 to build a Resilient and Trauma-Informed Community and the primary target of this effort has been aiming at the "process of how community partners work together to achieve systems-level change". Early on we acknowledged that large scale change does take time and committed to following a couple key models to guide our change effort.

Interestingly, our effort is not funded by a grant but instead through our intentional commitment and effort to achieve Foundational goals that set up key conditions for collaborative, large scale change to happen. Early strategy involved purposeful effort to promote community partner buy-in and collaborative ownership in the effort. While we do not have a grant driving the effort, we do have a couple key organizations who dedicated staff to support the larger collaborative community effort.

One of our goals from the beginning was to capture our process into a framework for other communities to use, follow and partner with us on.   Please let me know if you are interested in learning more.

You can also visit the website at www.resilientcommunitieswi.com

We had success in South Carolina through a few collaborative / community based partnerships.  First, our local United Way created a behavioral health task force in about 2012 that included 40+ public-private partnerships.  Second, for various efforts like the community-wide Resilient Schools / Compassionate Schools programs, funding from Duke Endowment and insurance / wellness providers supported the effort, along with private donations and partnerships.  We brought sustainability to the initiatives by building a technology platform called Sharpen which provides evidence-based, trauma-informed solutions to target audiences, such as first responders, parents, educators, etc.

I'm happy to share more and strategize research or other collaborations, that could help.  rfarrell@sharpenminds.com.

Michael, I don't know all of the details. I know that there have been some state wide initiatives funded in the past. Don't know the current status.