Healing-centered engagement training for community members
Resident asks for funding to train community members, such as those in barbershops, churches and schools, in healing-centered engagement to boost social-emotional support and community connection.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Healing centered engagement (HCE) training for community members to increase social-emotional support and community connectedness. Funding would pay for training and is self-sustained through the volunteers' acquired knowledge from training.
Who it helps and why
HCE is assets-based, seeks to address limitations of trauma-informed care, and was designed to "re-center culture as a central feature of well-being." Promotion of the training could be focused around community members who work in barbershops, churches, schools, community centers who understand the neighborhood and hold similar identities to the people they might help support. HCE is structured to not only help the individual engaging with the method to improve their own social-emotional wellbeing, but to help the facilitators with their own healing.
Details
- Cycle
- 2025–26
- Submitted
- July 29, 2025
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Human Services
- How it was submitted
- Community partner workshop
- Partner organization
- Boston Center for Independent Living
- Submission language
- English
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
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