The Neighborhood Resilience Project (NRP) supports community transformations that turn trauma affected neighborhoods into healthy, healing, and vibrant places where residents can thrive.
Using a Trauma Informed Community Development (TICD) method, the NRP and its collaborators evaluate and address a community’s health, wellbeing, and resilience.
One of those collaborators is the University of Pittsburgh. Recently NRP played a major role in Pitt Pediatric research focused on how to improve mental health outcomes of youth exposed to violence. NRP’s responsibilities included research survey design, participant recruiting and retention, and communicating research findings.
NRP’s Trauma Response Team offers community-based support for witnesses following violent events and has long-standing, engaging connections with youth, including teens who participated in Pitt’s research.
Community liaison recruiters completed a Community Partnered Research Ethics (CPERT) and certification specific to the study. This training helps support academic-community research partnerships.
NRP programs include a free Healthcare Center, a Trauma Response Team, a Backpack Feeding Program, a highly successful COVID-19 Vaccination Collaborative, and others.
NRP supports a sustainable national learning collaborative with Pittsburgh at the center, including a shared vision to raise up — in unconditional love — people who are suffering from trauma helping them to become empowered healers, community builders, and positive change makers.
Learn more about NRP at neighborhoodresilience.org.
