About Resilient Georgia
Resilient Georgia aims to lead a statewide coalition to develop a trauma-informed public and private network of care providers working to create a birth-to-26 continuum of care in Georgia’s existing healthcare systems.
In 2019 Resilient Georgia partnered with the Pittulloch Foundation to offer four regionally-focused two-year grants to community foundations across the state of Georgia. Lasting until December 2021, these grants were created to support Resilient Georgia’s strategic plan by increasing the statewide capacity for and awareness of trauma-informed care. Since then, Resilient Georgia has expanded to include twelve coalitions across three cycles of grant funding.
Resilient Georgia’s strategic map addresses five key priorities:
- Promote coordinated trauma-informed practices across systems
- Advance the workforce through recruitment, education, and development
- Build awareness and a common language/understanding about adversity and resilience
- Advocate for policy and systems change
- Create a sustainable model for the organization and the movement
About Resilient Northeast Georgia
Creating a trauma-informed behavioral health system is a top priority in the Northeast Georgia region and the state of Georgia as a whole. Growing out of a previous two-year grant cycle, Resilient Northeast Georgia is an emerging regional coalition focused on the mitigation and prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among individuals ages 0-26. Under the guidance of Resilient Georgia and the Pittulloch Foundation, Resilient Northeast Georgia’s footprint and scope of focus has expanded over four years, honing a community-driven approach to trauma-informed systems change.
In December 2021, the coalition secured an additional two years of funding, rebranding to become Resilient Northeast Georgia and expanding to cover a 12-county region ( Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, and Walton counties) that reflects Georgia Family Connection Partnership’s Region Five.
With renewed funding and an expanded area of service, Resilient Northeast Georgia is poised to provide trainings, resources, and opportunities for connection to partners and service-providing organizations across the region, creating a coalition built on collaborative efforts.
Coalition Aims
Resilient Northeast Georgia is an emerging collaborative working to prevent and mitigate the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences across a twelve-county region in northeastern Georgia. To achieve this goal, the following aims have been created to guide the direction of all coalition initiatives.
1. Promote coordinated trauma-informed practices across systems
- Convene diverse stakeholders, partners, and service providers across sectors
- Develop and promote the use of a common language surrounding evidence-based interventions
- Steward and champion the regional adoption of coordinated trauma-informed practices
2. Advance the workforce through recruitment, education, and development
- Identify and incorporate the adoption of trauma-informed competiencies across the workforce
- Work with regional partners to determine best recruitment and reimbursement policies for partners
- Increase the reach and effectiveness of interventions, with a focus on the region’s rural communities
- Support the recruitment of a trauma-informed workforce, both within organizations and across the region
3. Build a common language and awareness/understanding of adversity and resiliency
- Collaborate with partners to agree on and define terminology and create a common language
- Collaborate with community leaders and partners to develop a robust public awareness campaign
- Develop an extensive repository of trauma-informed resources, research, and trainings
- Convene and train existing and emerging service providers using evidence-based methods
4. Advocate for changes across Policy, Program, System, and Environment (PPSE) domains, incorporating a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) lens
- Work with partners and policy experts to better understand the policy landscape of the region
- Frame all efforts through the lens of achieving JEDI goals
- Incorporate sustainability of change across PPSE domains
- Advocate for a simplified process for individuals to access trauma-informed services
5. Create a sustainable model of collaborative action for the region
- Work with partners to identify key outcome measures and targets over the course of the grant
- Create a shared system of impact measurement and data reporting to assess progress, promote accountability, and allow for adaptive learning
- Determine common outcomes and goals for the region
- Set a common agenda for the coalition
- Identify partners interested in engaging with the coalition
- Establish a consistent system of communication that builds an interdependent network of partners
- Create a strategic plan that inorporates key factors that aid in the mitigation and prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences