As 2016 comes to a close, we would like to thank you, the TCC Community, for your support and encouragement this year. As a collaborative, your contribution is essential to our success. This focus of our final meeting of 2016 is on sharing where we are in helping to build a trauma-informed Baltimore. The agenda includes: Highlights from the recent TCC Steering Committee Meeting Community Sharing - The focus of this segment is for TCC members to share where you…

We hope your new year is off to a great start!  Please plan to join us as we kick off our new year with a facilitated workshop focused on identifying priority issues for the Thriving Communities Collaborative in areas such as partner education, external outreach, internal operating procedures for decision making and direction setting, and any number of other items.  We"ll be using a brainstorming/collecting/sorting technique that will help us identify key themes for moving forward and strengthening our movement.   Also,…

How exactly does racism "get under our skin?" How does something like racism factor in when we look at health outcomes? When the original ACES study was done, racism wasn't one of the adverse experiences identified as the population studied was only 5% black. However, when the Philadelphia Expanded ACES study was done, they found that over one-third (34.5%) of adults reported experiencing discrimination based on their race or ethnicity. At the March TCC General Meeting, we'll use the film: UNNATURAL…