Boosting community resilience and organizational capacity to prevent/address trauma-related violence

We must understand trauma and how it affects communities, in order to prevent violence effectively in communities impacted by trauma.  Please join the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), in collaboration with Prevention Institute and Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG), for a May 20 webinar, “A Focus on Trauma: Integrating Trauma-Informed Approaches and Moving Toward Trauma Prevention.” 

Monday, May 20

11:00 am-12:30 pm PT/ 2:00 pm-3:30 pm ET

Register here

Together, we’ll discuss trauma and its transmission, the evolution of our understanding of trauma, and the difference between individual and community-oriented approaches to trauma. As we learn more about trauma, it is becoming clear that trauma cannot be solved by focusing only on after-the-fact, one- person-at-a-time strategies.  Increasingly, advocates and academics are calling for more attention to promising prevention approaches that impact whole communities. In this webinar, we’ll highlight different frameworks and models of trauma-informed approaches in order to tailor prevention work to communities impacted by trauma. We’ll also identify tools and resources to support ongoing, innovative partnerships to prevent trauma in the first place. 

Trauma is a critical issue and focus across OJJDP's Youth Violence Prevention Network. OJJDP, PI and DSG are excited to have dynamic speakers guiding the discussion:

Speakers:

Jane Hallday Goldman, PhD, MSW, Director of the Service Systems program at the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, coordinates projects related to trauma-informed child and family systems.

Howard Pinderhughes, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at UC San Francisco, has led strategy development on violence and trauma prevention in locales across the country, and collaborates with Prevention Institute on community-level trauma work.

Moderator:

Annie Lyles, MSW, Program Manager, Prevention Institute. Annie provides training and technical assistance on issues impacting rural and urban communities including mental health issues, trauma and multiple forms of violence.