To provide BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities in Indiana access to education and skills that build collective resilience in addressing trauma-related recovery challenges.
Mission
Our mission is to reconnect families and communities to culturally specific collective healing through education and peer support.
Impact
As a result, BIPOC communities will see reduced substance use, mental health stigma, mental crisis hospitalizations, and criminal justice involvement.
Vision
To see peer support create healthy outcomes that rebuild connection and empowers communities to work together to build collective resilience.
Objectives
Increase trauma-informed awareness in Indiana communities.
Train individuals to become Peer Recovery Coaches to support trauma recovery.
Connect Peer Recovery Coaches to jobs to heal communities and increase resilience.
Strategies
Educate communities about the common thread that separates families and communities - trauma.
Extend the opportunity to be trained as peer support coaches.
Connect newly trained peers to jobs in community-based partner organizations .