Serving Clatsop County

Community Education

Community Education is a powerful way to improve awareness, perceptions, and attitudes about childhood trauma, toxic stress, adversity, and trauma-informed care. It increases personal skills to manage emotions and conflict so that parents, children, caregivers, and teachers are better able to address challenges as they arise.

 

At the heart of Community Education is the ability for an individual and the entire community to become lifelong learners. This is a foundational piece of creating resilient communities, and any actions communities take rests on their awareness of childhood trauma, a commitment to trauma informed care, and the skills it takes to create resilience and well-being.

Goal 1: Improve community awareness, perceptions and attitudes about childhood trauma, toxic stress, adversity and trauma informed care (TIC)

Goal 2: Increase personal skills to manage emotions and conflict

  • Increase education
  • Increase resources
  • Percentage of parents better able to manage emotions & conflicts
  • Percentage of children better able to manage emotions and conflicts
  • Percentage of caregivers and teachers better able to manage emotions and conflicts

Promote community education (i.e., ACEs, etc.)

  • Design a public awareness campaign to build understanding and awareness about linkages to ACEs, trauma and resilience (develop common language)
  • Align RCC (ACEs/TI) with existing community events/initiatives
  • Increase faith-based community involvement
  • Create RCC speaker’s bureau (train the trainer)
  • Develop website
  • Conduct community resilience building events (start by building on existing initiatives)
  • Implement resiliency awareness month

Advocate to increase awareness of TIC

  • Educate and engage political representatives

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