What Is the NeuroTrust?
The NeuroTrust is a design research lab and learning community that models how to solve complex, social issues.
At its core, this platform is a teaching tool that is designed to collaborate with communities to create relationships that are more healthy, trusting, equitable, and just.
Our Mission: Create opportunities for people to become more informed and effective decision-makers, to feel more personally rewarded in their work, and to create healthier outcomes for the communities they serve.
Our Vision: As a learning community we strive to create healthier, generative communities.
Problem Definition:
We can’t do our best work when we are depleted, overwhelmed, and distracted by all of the brokenness we face in today’s world.
Those who work in the helping professions often suffer from compassion fatigue and burnout, but with cognitive science and evidence-driven approaches to improving individual and community health, that doesn’t have to be the end of the story.
We believe that trauma informed design can create structural solutions that save us time and energy, reduce costs, and shape better health outcomes.
Our Goal:
We want to ‘make it FEEL good to DO GOOD.’
The goal of this initiative is to get participants to assess:
- how they can use trauma-informed interventions to create opportunities for recovery, resilience, and repair at each stage of the socio-ecological impact model
- what frameworks for analysis have contributed to the ways that they approach individual and community-level health threats
- how they build community to address these threats in ways that are evidence driven, trauma-informed, and generative
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