Georgia Conference on Child Abuse Prevention

Communities already hold the tools needed to prevent child abuse, the challenge is organizing those tools into a coordinated, effective system. This workshop explores how the Community Resilience Model, developed by the Trauma Resource Institute, can be integrated with community resource models to create proactive, trauma-responsive prevention systems.
Participants will learn how to move from fragmented, reactive services to aligned, resilience-centered networks that strengthen protective factors and reduce risk before harm occurs. The session will highlight practical strategies for mapping community assets, building cross-sector partnerships, and embedding trauma-responsive principles into existing systems of care.
In addition, this workshop will introduce pathways for implementing trauma-responsive certification as a mechanism for sustaining community-wide change, increasing organizational alignment, and ensuring consistency in prevention practices.
Attendees will leave with actionable tools to design and implement integrated, measurable, and sustainable approaches to child abuse prevention grounded in resilience, collaboration, and community capacity.