The NC Trauma-Informed Communities (TIC) Project promotes community-led and community-driven efforts to support children, families, and providers who have experienced trauma and/or support those who have experienced trauma. The project strives to develop a comprehensive, racially equitable, community-led, trauma-informed, and healing-centered response for children, families, and communities across the state of North Carolina. Essential to this mission is the explicit acknowledgement that racial equity and social justice IS trauma-informed care.
Since 2018, the project has worked alongside communities to build on strengths, identify and address barriers, shift to a learning/growth mindset, and move toward sustainable and community-led practices. The TIC Project is a resource for community members, community coalitions, and service system providers who wish to engage more effectively in systems- and practice change. Through paradigm-shifting workshops, consultation, and community gatherings, the project models healing-centered and restorative justice methods, and creates space for leaning into shared values, learning and unlearning, building authentic relationship, and sharing knowledge to overcome barriers to change.
The TIC Project is a collaboration of the Center for Child and Family Health (CCFH), Duke University School of Medicine’s Trauma-Focused Team, and Community Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE). Funding for this work is provided through the NC Division of Child & Family Well-Being.