Mission & Broad Goals

Resilient Middle Georgia partners with community organizations and agencies to enact long-term change and build resilience in individuals, families, and the community. With 122 diverse partners across 11 counties, the coalition focuses on building awareness of trauma-informed care to inspire long-term healing, build resilience, and empower community champions to join the trauma-informed care movement. Resilient Middle Georgia seeks to empower the cities and counties in Middle Georgia to face adversity and trauma with empathy and bravery.

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Resilient Middle Georgia has listed the following goals to build a resilient community: 

• Informing individuals, families, and communities about Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs) science to empower change from within the community and supporting sustainable long-term change. 

• Building community capacity to meet the needs and developing a stronger trauma-informed workforce to expand quality care and reduce workforce burnout in social service areas.

• Supporting organizational leaders and coalition partners to implement trauma-informed and PACEs practices into their organizational structure to more effectively engage, empathize, and understand their target populations. 

• Facilitating and promoting various leadership training opportunities and evaluating continuously.

• Embedding trauma-informed practices into organizations to achieve a systems-level change.

• Strengthening leadership team to identify metrics, measure, and track the progress of trauma-informed initiatives.