Our Mission

Creating resilient healing and healthy communities. One block at a time.

Rooted in the Gospel and teachings of the Orthodox Church, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement (American 1950s-1960s), the mission of the Neighborhood Resilience Project is to support the transformation of neighborhoods from Trauma Affected Communities to Resilient Healing and Healthy Communities through Trauma Informed Community Development.

Our Vision

To inspire a movement in which suffering people are raised up from the ashes of trauma in unconditional love to become empowered healers, community builders, and positive change makers.

Trauma Informed Community Development

Trauma-Informed Community Development

In 2012, community members from the faith-based community began to engage the Hill District in a wider conversation about Community Trauma. This engagement was in partnership with Duquesne University and culminated in a Consultative Workshop in 2014.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, as a result of these conversations, began to work in partnership with these local community members to develop a technically advanced method to evaluate the health and wellbeing and resilience in the community. These partnerships resulted in a confluence of strategies that have become the basis for Trauma-Informed Community Development (TICD).

As informed by the lived experience of trauma, both personal and collective, TICD is a framework that establishes and promotes healthy resilience communities so that people can be healthy enough to sustain opportunities and realize their potential.

Join the Movement.

By bringing people together, empowering the brokenhearted and restoring lives, the people we serve become the people helping us to serve others. Join the movement and discover how you can make a difference in your neighborhood.

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