Together, we can create a more resilient future.
Resilient Futures is a non-profit organization that creates and guides the implementation of trauma-informed, equity-centered programming with healing at the forefront. We think about adversity and trauma through the lens of resilience, empowering our partners with the knowledge of how trauma presents in children and adults, and offering strategies that meet trauma responses with empathy and understanding.
What exactly is childhood trauma?
How does it impact us as children and into adulthood? Understanding the emotional & physical impacts of trauma is where we need to start. This knowledge helps us think differently about how we identify, intercept, and appropriately respond to people exhibiting trauma response behaviors with healing-centric strategies and compassion.
We define ‘resilience’
as the capacity to grow & thrive, with strength and tenacity in the face of trauma and oppression for both individuals and communities.
Programs & Services
In partnership with our clients, we work to establish specific goals and define concrete opportunities, along with strengths & barriers to change within their respective organizations. This collaboration results in bespoke training & supportive practices for diverse community systems & institutions on their journeys to becoming trauma-informed, equity-centered, and culturally responsive to all members.
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Early Childhood
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K-12 Schools, Higher Ed & Youth-Serving Agencies
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Community & Institutional Systems
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Racial Healing & Coaching Series
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Race-Based Equity Trainings
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Online Workshops & Resources
Breaking Systemic Trauma Response Cycles
Trauma presents in ways that challenge societal norms of acceptable behavior.
When we respond negatively to people exhibiting trauma responses, we further marginalize them by dismissing the inherent ways that our experiences directly impact behaviors. “Unacceptable behavior” by systemic standards may be a person’s best attempt to cope with their experiences in the present. Trauma responses are physiologically intelligent coping mechanisms that allow people to survive in a world that doesn’t seek to understand them.
Systemic Trauma Response Cycle
A Trauma-Informed approach to breaking the Systemic Cycle
Knowledge of the emotional, physiological, and neurological impacts of trauma can change the ways we perceive and interact with others. When we meet adversity with compassion and a desire to validate & heal - rather than to judge or condemn – we manifest communities of care that empower people with self-knowledge and agency. We step away from systemic expectations of behavior and approach people as individuals with unique experiences that drive their behaviors.
Our work advances the narrative around trauma through an equity lens, bringing it to the foreground of community conversation with education and practices that strengthen our capacity to grow as individuals, while advocating for sustainable change.
Women-founded with community at the core.
Meet Resilient Futures
Our Executive team brings a range of experiences, knowledge, and passion for working with individuals of all ages, and within the systems that support them. Our staff, faculty, partners, and institutional leaders are a part of our collective community, all sharing in our Mission and Vision for the future.
Give to further our Mission
More than ever, our schools and youth-serving communities are in need of trauma-informed, equity-centered training and resources. Your tax-deductible gift will directly fund our program expansion efforts, enabling us to provide trauma-informed training and resources to a greater number of educators, schools, and youth-serving organizations.
Our Values
Our values are the backbone of our organization. They shape our goals and drive our efforts & operations as we grow and evolve to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve.
Our Publications
Developing Trauma-Informed Teachers: Creating Classrooms that Foster Equity, Resiliency, and Asset-Based Approaches
Making an Impact
Interested in learning more about our Trauma-Informed Futures© Programming & Services?