Trauma-Informed Care Regional Collaborative

The Ohio Departments of Behavioral Health (DBH) and Developmental Disabilities (DODD) collaborate on a statewide Trauma-Informed Care (TCC) Initiative intended to promote a greater sense of safety, security and equality among consumers/clients. TCC is an approach that explicitly acknowledges the role trauma plays in people’s lives. TCC means that every part of an organization or program understands the impact of trauma on the individuals they serve and adopts a culture that considers and addresses this impact. 

Working through six Regional Collaboratives, the initiative will expand opportunities for Ohioans to receive trauma-informed interventions by enhancing efforts for practitioners, facilities, and agencies to become competent in trauma-informed practices.

Our Region: Summit Southwest

Counties included in Summit Region:

  • Brown
  • Butler
  • Clark
  • Clermont
  • Clinton
  • Greene
  • Hamilton
  • Madison
  • Montgomery
  • Preble
  • Warren

Vision

A region where trauma-informed care is embedded across systems, schools, and communities, ensuring individuals and families feel supported, understood, and empowered, and where lived experience is honored as essential knowledge that drives transformation and fosters community resilience.

Mission

To strengthen collaboration, build capacity, and provide practical tools and training that reduce trauma’s impact, prevent re-traumatization and builds resilience across the 11-county Summit Region, while ensuring these tools are accessible to all.

Strategic Priorities

  1. Strengthen member engagement by building infrastructure for the Trauma Informed Care Regional Collaborative.
    • Recruit key stakeholders with 100% representation from the region’s 11 counties.
    • Identify a point of contact per county to serve on the advisory group.
    • Identify the role of each county point of contact within the collaborative.
    • Identify key outcomes and activities for advisory group and coordination within larger collaborative membership.
  2. Improve accessibility to resources for collaborative members and community.
    • Identify or create a centralized resource hub.
    • Establish resource sharing protocols (mailing lists, newsletters, etc.)
    • Create a plan for reaching community members to provide resource information.
    • Identify training opportunities for the collaborative to sponsor including desired topics, target audience and learning objectives.
  3. Increase skills for non-clinical supports for those with lived experience.
    • Conduct assessment to identify core non-clinical competencies necessary for community members.
    • Assess current available resources, develop plan for sharing and identify resource gaps and ongoing opportunities.
    • Research and develop plan for micro-trainings.
    • Establish a core group of individuals with lived experience to guide training development.
    • Measure reach and impact after year 1.