Hello Toni -
Great question!
First, you don’t have to start a nonprofit. A group of nonprofit and for-profit, educational, governmental, judicial, medical and other types of organizations may come together to form an entity to prevent and heal childhood trauma and look for ways to build individual, family, and community resilience (which will help, over the long-run, with prevention).
We’ve created guides to help members start and grow communities.
Look at at the column of “widgets” on the right-hand side of the home page of PACEs Connection and you’ll see “Growing Resilient Communities” widget. Just click on it to find posts and resources on “Starting Resilient Communities” and “Growing Resilient Communities.”
Check those out! You may also write our staff members who’re available to guide you at communitysupport@pacesconnection.com and someone from our team will respond within 48 hours.
If you’d like to check them out.
Hope to see soon that you’ve helped start a new community.
Peace!
Carey Sipp, PACEs Connection staff