OUR VISION

Charlottesville area organizations recognize that trauma impacts the lives and wellbeing of our community members. Across the country, Trauma-Informed Care is being recognized as a necessary component to healing and recovery for children, families, and larger systems. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)*, emerging research has documented the relationships among exposure to traumatic events, impaired neurodevelopmental and immune systems responses, and subsequent health risk behaviors resulting in chronic physical or behavioral health disorders. Research has also indicated that with appropriate supports and intervention, people can overcome traumatic experiences.

OUR MISSION

Therefore, community members and organizations in the Greater Charlottesville area have come together with the following mission: to improve Trauma-Informed care by educating professionals and the community on the impacts of trauma and by advocating for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care.

2022-2025 Strategic Priorities & Tactics

What innovative and substantive actions do we want to take over the next two years to advance towards our vision?

1. Restructure GCTICN

  • Create a strong GCTICN infrastructure

  • Establish inclusive community leadership

2. Build lasting, authentic, and trusting relationships

  • Engage in relationship building and increase community understanding of the impacts of trauma and resilience

  • Educate and build awareness of the TICN with diverse and multi-sector stakeholders

  • Engage youth and cultivate youth leadership

3. Launch immediate community response

  • Mobilize a community response team to respond to traumatic events

OUR FOUNDING

The Greater Charlottesville Trauma-Informed Community Network was established in 2016. Alicia Lenahan, President and CEO of Piedmont CASA, and Shannon Noe, Youth Counseling Program Manager at ReadyKids, led this effort. The first step was to establish a Steering Committee of leaders from area non-profit organizations. The first community-wide network meeting took place on September 26, 2016.  Since then, more than 300 persons representing over 80 organizations have attended network meetings.

THE STEERING COMMITTEE

Marlene Thompson (TICN Coordinator)

Alician Lenahan (Common Ground)

Meaghan Gordon (Charlottesville DSS)

Chris Raju (Community member)

Joy Johnson (Community member)

Veronica Espinosa (Partner for Mental Health)

Paige Perriello (Pediatric Associates)

Contact us: Info@cvilleticn.org

Sara Robinson (Region Ten CSB)

Zarina Burdge (Region Ten CSB)

Mary Stebbins (Albemarle County DSS)

Jodi Murphy (Charlottesville City Schools)

Laura Handler (Community member)

Louisa Candelario (Community member)

Yolonda Adams (Cultivate Charlottesville)

Latara Ragland ( Department of Human Services)

Fiscal Sponsorship Agency

Region Ten serves as the Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship agency for the TICN. The TICN functions as a sub-program of Region Ten that benefits from a community advisory committee. All of the TICN’s revenue and expenses are tracked within Region Ten. On the TICN website, we acknowledge our unique identity, and are clear that our fiscal sponsorship is by Region Ten Community Services Board.