Our Vision
Bringing forth National Transformation through Local Ripple-Effects
Our Vision:
A Community That Prevents Trauma
ONE national coalition of
1 MILLION individuals, across
50 states, &
10 cities, with
20 THOUSAND individuals per state, &
5 THOUSAND individuals per city
A new recipe: culture of Trauma Transformation that powerfully combines national and local strategies and wisdom to prevent trauma nationwide.
What We’re creating
Our Vision:
Regenerating ourselves, our families, and our communities to create a world that reflects the love we have for our children.
Our Mission:
As the Home for Good Coalition, we create an affirming and safe environment that values, uplifts, and is guided by the voices of people who have been traumatized by the very systems that claim to help them. We bring people together across systems, roles, and experiences to co-create a truly equitable radical transformation city-wide.
THEORY OF CHANGE:
Implemented Nationally, Driven Locally
We leverage the personal experiences of parents, youth, and professionals, to create a community that learns to advocate for itself. The individual transformation expands to collective advocacy and system transformation. Personal stories become a collective story that generates healing, prevention, and protection. Each community will generate a local strategy that is grounded in that wisdom.
SUPPORTER STORY
“Family court is a business.” I interviewed a woman who was a secretary for Family Court for over 10 years. In her own life, she had a practice of healing her own childhood wounds. She was committed to working well in court, too, but was discouraged and burned out by watching family court run like a factory that destroyed people’s lives: “Family court is a business. People get pushed through; there is no space for healing. When judges get elected, they go to Harrisburg for training. They are told quotas of children [to be taken]. They are under constant pressure to keep their numbers up. There was this one judge, she really took the time to understand what the problem was, most of her families got their children back. They put a tremendous amount of pressure on her because they said her numbers [ of placements ] were bad.”
PARENT STORY
“How am I supposed to get experience if nobody’s hiring?”Jamaican-born Maria is one of the hardest-working women I know. When her 2-month old baby dies of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Doctors declared Maria was not to blame yet DHS investigates her. Maria’s marriage does not survive the loss of her children, but she is determined to find a good job to afford the housing required to regain her son. She successfully completes five different job-training programs. Yet after months of training and promises, not one job comes through. Still broken-hearted, Maria persists at job-training programs.
YOUTH STORY
“She’s my baby, she’s just like me”Nichelle is spirited and spunky, yet I believe her family trauma remains unhealed. She was a product of incest; Nichelle’s mother, Evelyn, had been raped by her own father. Though Nichelle was in a good foster home as a child, Nichelle later leaves her own young daughter in care and embarks on a search to “find herself.” Without knowing how to break the trauma cycle, she is never stable enough to bring her daughter home. Instead, she becomes ensnared in the same street life that trapped her own mother.
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