
Community Resilience Initiative: Inspiring healthier communities with science-based insights in order to promote and cultivate resilience.
Community Resilience Initiative
What We Do
Training
Become an Agent of Resilience and transform your community. Learn skills for addressing and preventing trauma while building resilience.
Community Engagement
CRI is focused on building community capacity to mitigate the effects of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and build Resilience through collaborations and partnerships.
Products
The CRI shop is filled with resources for learning and teaching including games, posters, books, and more. Check back often for new product releases.
CRI offers Resilience Based Trainings to Address Trauma
- Trauma-Informed Trainings: Moving to Resilience (3 Courses)
- Training of Trainers Courses
- Workshops for Framing Your Community Initiative
- Customized Training, Support, and Coaching

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Our community-building framework and 21 years’ experience in capacity building is the essence of what created the platform for the documentary Paper Tigers. From its beginning, CRI has focused on building community capacity to mitigate the effects of ACEs and build Resilience through collaborations and partnerships.
Walla Walla Valley
ACEs CONNECTION
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ACEs Connection Blog
- Washington OKs 1st statewide missing Indigenous people alert (newsbreak.com)
- Scholarships now available for Mind Matters Now!
- The Hidden Biases of Good People: Implicit Bias Awareness Training
- Join us October 27, 2021 for the inaugural event in our Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice System series, “The Relationship between PACEs and the Criminal Justice System”
- October is Resilience Month in Walla Walla
“When you’re working with a community that looks at trauma as a collective response, you’re speaking the same language. You have the same goal in mind. It is such a powerful model.”
Jim Sporlederformer Principal of Lincoln H.S., Walla Walla
“I am a firm believer that in order to lead a person, you really need to understand the prism through which they see the world. Your ACE and Resilience presentation helped me see how to decipher the receiver’s prism.”
Mark KajitaCEO Baker Boyer Bank, Walla Walla
“So grateful for this training, this is intensely vital information. I know this will shift my life, my daughter’s and others’ on a worthwhile path. Absolutely profound.”
Jade ChamberlainStaff member at The Loft, a program of Catholic Charities, Walla Walla
Trauma Informed Care is paramount when connecting on a meaningful level with those we serve in our community on two levels. The first is to know ourselves and fully acknowledge the experiences that shape our biases and behaviors. The second is to recognize another’s events that did the same while neither condemning ourselves nor them regardless of where we are on the path to improving. In doing this, it allows for communication on an honest level; communication being a cornerstone to service.
Sgt Kevin D. BayneWalla Walla Police Department
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