TRAUMA-INFORMED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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SRQ Strong knows that everyone can thrive when the community works together. Using a Trauma-Informed Community Development approach gives neighbors the tools to create sustainable and interconnected communities that remain healthy. 

• A process of community engagement that centers relationships between neighbors, resulting in trust, connection, and resilience within neighborhoods.
• It strengthens partnerships and emphasizes shared problem-solving.
• It recognizes the relationships across local organizations and seeks to align unlikely partners to amplify neighborhood visibility.
• It empowers communities to shape their own future with confidence, drawing on their own strengths and perspectives to guide what happens next.
• It provides evidence-based results that support long-term funding and sustainability within communities.

Trauma affects how people connect, trust, and thrive in their neighborhoods. Trauma-Informed Community Development helps communities heal and grow together by building trust, empowering neighbors to solve local challenges, and connecting residents with each other and local resources. By addressing trauma and building resilience, TICD strengthens neighborhoods so that community well-being and individual health support and reinforce each other.

TICD puts neighbors in the driver’s seat: unlike traditional top-down programs, residents connect, lead solutions, and build resilience together—tracking progress in real time to make their community stronger and healthier.

TICD is for residents, community groups, organizations, local governments, and funders. It’s powerful because it strengthens connections, builds resilience, and drives real, measurable improvements in neighborhood health, safety, and well-being—guiding future investments and projects that reflect and build on the community’s unique needs and strengths.