As the urgency to address trauma and adversity grows, many frameworks for change models have emerged to build community-level recovery, resilience, healing, and post-traumatic growth.

But how do you choose the most suitable method for change?

Our next CTIPP CAN call will highlight change models to help you better integrate community-led and healing-centered principles and concepts into your efforts.

Far from prescriptive, the strategies can be tailored to your community's unique challenges and opportunities to cultivate long-term capacity and sustainability.

We invite you to join us on Wednesday, July 19th!

Sincerely,

Your Friends at CTIPP

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Our June 2023 CTIPP CAN call shared strategies and advice to help you develop or update your communications plan, secure earned media coverage in your local news, reach audiences directly with a "media platform" on your existing website, and model the model with trauma-informed storytelling.

Need communications support or help securing local earned media coverage? From messaging and social media to strategy and public relations, CTIPP is here to help. Fill out our intake form to receive one-on-one support.

CTIPP is now on Spotify! Check out some of our favorite songs to help inspire and propel the trauma-informed movement so we can build resilience and healing. Have a suggestion? Email laura@traumacampaign.org.

EVENTS

JULY 19: CTIPP’s next Community Advocacy Network (CAN) call will highlight change models to help you better integrate community-led and healing-centered principles and concepts into your efforts. Far from prescriptive, the strategies can be tailored to your community's unique challenges and opportunities to cultivate long-term capacity and sustainability.

JULY 20: Join a virtual Congressional briefing on H.R. 3073, the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023 (CMWRA). Hosted by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, H.R. 5073 would for the first time, authorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fund and support community-led initiatives nationwide that use a public health approach to proactively build mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal mental health problems generated by toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters.

CALLS TO ACTION

Urge Congress to support the RISE from Trauma Act (S. 1426) to expand the trauma-informed workforce in schools, healthcare settings, social services, first responders, and the justice system, and increase resources for communities to address the impact of trauma.

Urge Congress to support the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (S. 1452 and H.R. 3073) to help communities proactively develop local strategies that build population-level resilience by planning for and responding to the mental health challenges caused by disasters and toxic stress.

MINDFUL MOMENT: UNEQUAL RATIO

 

The “unequal ratio” breathing technique can help diminish stress and regulate your nervous system. Simply lie down somewhere comfortable and quiet on your back, and bring the soles of the feet together and let the knees open out (reclining butterfly), or spread the feet wider than the shoulders and allow the knees to knock into each other. 

  • Place one hand on your belly and the other over your chest. 
  • Take a full inhale through the nose and then a full exhale out the mouth. 
  • Inhale for four counts. 
  • Hold for four counts. 
  • Exhale for eight counts. 
  • Hold for four counts. 
  • Repeat for 10 cycles. 
  • When finished, take several moments to notice the effects of the practice before returning to your day.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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