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To designate May 9-13th as Trauma-Informed Awareness Week in the City of Columbus and recognize the work of the Columbus CARE Coalition.
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WHEREAS, Trauma-informed care is an approach that can bring greater understanding and more effective ways to prevent, identify, support and service children, adults, families, and communities affected by adverse childhood experiences, trauma, adversity, and toxic stress; and
WHEREAS, Trauma-informed care is not a therapy or an intervention, but a principle-based, culture-change process aimed at recognizing strengths and resiliency as well as helping people who have experienced trauma to overcome those issues in order to lead healthy and positive lives; and
WHEREAS, Trauma-informed care is essential to our overall health, and the importance of attending to mental health has become even more pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has not only negatively impacted many people’s mental health but has also created barriers to treatment; the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and many other agencies and organizations provide substance resources to better engage individuals and communities across the United States in order to implement trauma-informed care; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus CARE Coalition provides hope and healing to individuals, families, and neighbors experiencing trauma through various workshops focused on trauma training, racial trauma and networking and by offering support in communities following a traumatic event, including canvassing neighborhoods post-homicide in Linden, Southside and Hilltop; and
WHEREAS, research over the last two decades in the fields of public health, neuroscience, molecular biology and genomics reveals that experiences in the first few years of life build changes into the biology of the human body that, in turn, influence the person’s physical and mental health over the person’s lifetime; and
WHEREAS, A trauma-informed Columbus enhances the abi...
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