• Partners: DCHS Communications, OCCE, RAISE Network Members, Key community and faith leaders, ACPS, Boards and Commissions, PTAs, ARHA

•  Activities:

  • Worked with Communications Teams to promote mental health resources.

  • Created a Wellness Resource Guide and a Guide for Coping with Fear and Uncertainty

  • Created a Calling Tree to have partners distribute information to key audiences.

Strategy 2: Collaborate with other Virginia TICNs in the first annual Resilience Week Virginia to bring resilience-building activities and events to all Virginians.  

• Objective: Celebrate annual Resilience Week Virginia by bringing resilience-building activities and events to all Virginians

• Partners: DCHS Communications, ACPS DSSAPE, Mindful Junkie, DCHS Youth Development Team, Fairfax TICN, Greater Richmond TICN, SCAN, INOVA, DCHS Child and Family Behavioral Health Services, City HR, DCHS CCF  

• Resilience-Building Activities:

  • Resilience Week Campaign

  • Daily Mindfulness Sessions with Students

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Trainings

  • Mental Health & Resilience Town Hall

  • Alexandria Trauma & Resiliency Summit

Strategy 3: Leverage existing tools and volunteers to help people seeking MH support. 

• Objective: Leverage existing tools and volunteers to help people seeking Mental Health support

• Partners: City’s 311 service (DCHS 311 Liaison), RPCA’s Safe Place, Meals on Wheels volunteers, 911 Dispatch, DV and CPS hotlines, AHD COVID 19 Hotline, ACAP and SAPCA’s Teen Text Line, Fairfax County

• Tools Leveraged:

  • Alex311

  • CrisisLink

  • Alexandria Safe Place

  • Parent Support Lines (flyer)

  • Raise Your Voice to Help Neighbors at Risk of Abuse : How to recognize signs of abuse in children and adults. View flyer in  English,  Spanish,  Amharic or  Arabic 

Strategy 4: Develop a Toolkit that supports supervisors as they provide support to their staff.

• Objective: Develop a Toolkit that supports supervisors as they provide support to their staff.

  • Activities:

    • Created a Resiliency Guide for Trauma-Informed Supervision

    • Organized Town Halls to introduce the Toolkit to City supervisors

Strategy 5: Develop a webpage on City’s website to include Resources for Racial Healing and Coping with Racism and Trauma

Objective: Elevate resources related to coping with racism and trauma on individual, interpersonal/family, community and national/global levels

• Activities:

  •  Developed a Continuum of resources of Coping with Racism and Trauma

  • Shared Continuum at a Town Hall Event: Facing Racism. Demanding Change

Strategy 6: Support existing efforts that aim to promote community wellness and resiliency among youth and adults. 

• Partners: DCHS Youth Development Team, SAPCA, ACAP, CYMP, DCHS Sexual Assault Center, Voices for Virginia’s Children, LGBTQ Task Force 

• Objective: Support existing efforts that aim to promote community wellness and resiliency

•  Initiatives:

  •  Bi-Weekly Mindfulness Wellness Circles

  • Annual Youth Leadership Conference

  • Children and Youth Master Plan

  • Community Health Improvement Plan

  • Youth Peer Advocates educating youth on healthy relationships

  • Resources for LGBTQ+ 

  • Suicide Prevention

  • RAISE Your Voice Infographics (English,  Spanish,  Amharic or  Arabic)

  • Trauma Trainings

  • Advocacy Trainings