Congrats all! Glad to see the progress you are making!

The Hutchinson Community Foundation announced $255,881 worth of grants to 27 organizations on Thursday at the Cosmosphere . The HCF grants have awarded more than $3.5 million to 170 organizations since its inception in 1990. This year’s grants touch on education, healthcare, food insecurity and much more. To continue reading this article in The Hutchinson News, go to: http://www.hutchnews.com/news/20181115/community-foundation-announces-255k-in-grants.

Thirty-seven Reno County community members took the first step in the commitment of becoming a trauma-informed community. District 308 and ESSDACK drew people towards the pioneering conversation of building a resilient and trauma-informed Hutchinson. This all stems from the district bringing in two national trauma-informed leaders, Heather T. Forbes, author of Help for Billy and Jim Sporleder, the principal in the documentary Paper Tigers, to Hutchinson to help the district begin the journey...

Kained (verb)- to have Lara Kain come to your community and create a roadmap to implement trauma practices. On October 10th, 2018, Lara Kain and graphic artist Stephanie Steigerwaldt traveled to Hutchinson (KS) to assist Resilience Reno County in developing a longer range vision. It was an outstanding day attended by more than 50 people over 2 sessions. Lara and Stephanie were able to facilitate deep thinking as those in attendance all participated in related activities. As the graphic...

After having 37 individuals at its first two meetings, there was a huge turnout for the first of three meetings targeting a study of the book Childhood Disrupted by Donna Jackson Nakazawa. Fifty-three community members, representing more than 20 agencies spent their lunch hours going deeper. Conversations about the impacts of childhood trauma were wide spread, but as one shared "in chapter three we are already talking about solutions." These meetings have lead to new connections being built...

Thanks for posting, Rebecca! Congratulations, Hutchinson and Reno County!!