Hi Jeff,
I love the "viral health" analogy.
We are beginning the same process in Wood County, Ohio. We just had our Kick-off event with Sandra Bloom speaking to 700 people and then having Dr. Bloom and Landa Harrison and Sarah Yannosy with the Sanctuary Institute do a day-and-a-half workshop.
Our next step is to bring our nascent Trauma Informed Community Coalition to the forefront of our efforts to develop a trauma informed county. We have formed our steering committee. We have one agency - child and family mental health agency - going through the Sanctuary certification. We hope to have others do likewise, but not sure we can do more than their 5 day training. We plan to being Sanctuary Institute back for their intensive 5-day training for a number of agencies. Still working to expand our critical mass (or tipping point) but we are making progress.
We have a county collaborative group, a mandated council called the Family and Children's First Council, with mandated community leaders, which is willing to take on our Coalition as a project.
Let me know of your interest in sharing. I'd love to know how you got 10 organizations to commit to becoming Sanctuary Certified. That is impressive.
Cheers,
Tom Clemons, MA