“Race to Resilience” Initiative

Organizing Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks  in North America and Worldwide

From record heat waves, storms, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other disasters, to increasing disruptions to the ecological, social, and economic systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs, incomes, health, and other basic needs, the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis is rapidly escalating. The crisis is an unprecedented public health emergency that will produce radically more and different types of mental health and psychosocial problems than society has ever experienced.  

Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive traumas speeding our way.  Instead, a public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities, as residents engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

To accomplish this, as a partner in the U.N. High level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) and its core partners the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and Trauma Informed Oregon (TIO) will work with co-sponsors worldwide to help organize, strengthen, and “Commission” Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRNCs) worldwide.  

A TRCN is a wide and diverse coalition of local grassroots, neighborhood, education, youth, faith/ spirituality, mental and physical health, social work, disaster management, climate/environmental, social and environmental justice, and other civic, non-profit, private, and public sector leaders. From the bottom-up, the TRCN develops and implements locally-appropriate strategies that help all adults, adolescents, and young children remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during continual adversities, as they also engage in activities that help reduce the C-E-B crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. 

The TRCN Commissioning initiative will help community leaders in North America and worldwide learn how to organize a TRCN, facilitate and strengthen its operations, and develop and continually improve strategies that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience. 

• Click here to register for the October 1 webinar
• If you want to attend a 2-part Community of Practice held on Tuesday October 22 and Tuesday October 29 from 12 noon to 1 pm Eastern Time to learn more about TRCN Commissioning Program sign up here.
• If you want to apply to participate in the TRCN Commissioning Program please go here