Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCNs)

One of two psycho-socially-focussed UN Race to Resilience initiatives, alongside the COP^2 Network, coordinated by the International Transformational Resilience Network (ITRN) provides support and materials to local community groups wanting to create ‘Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCN)’, bottom-up multi-sector mutual aid and resilience-building efforts, with a focus on psychological resources, community connection and trauma.

“TRCNs are wide and diverse networks of local residents, groups, and organizations that use a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience for the toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters generated by the climate crisis.”

From The ITRC UN High Level Climate Champion “Race to Resilience” Initiative Organizing Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks in North America and Worldwide - https://itrcoalition.org/current-events-and-news/

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Individualized mental health services cannot address the pervasive traumas speeding our way. Instead, a public health approach must be used in neighborhoods and communities to strengthen everyone’s capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience for relentless adversities, as residents engage in activities that help reduce the [climate and biodiversity crisis] crisis to manageable levels and enhance local conditions. To accomplish this, as a partner in the U.N. High level Climate Champion Race to Resilience Campaign, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) and its core partners the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and Trauma Informed Oregon (TIO) will work with co- ==sponsors worldwide to help organize, strengthen, and “Commission” Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRNCs) worldwide.

A TRCN is a wide and diverse coalition of local grassroots, neighborhood, education, youth, faith/ spirituality, mental and physical health, social work, disaster management, climate/environmental, social and environmental justice, and other civic, non-profit, private, and public sector leaders. From the bottom-up, the TRCN develops and implements locally-appropriate strategies that help all adults, adolescents, and young children remain socially, psychologically, emotionally, and behaviorally healthy and resilient during continual adversities, as they also engage in activities that help reduce the [climate and biodiversity crisis] to manageable levels and enhance local conditions.