How States Can Effectively Engage People with Lived Experience

Cherene Caraco often says “Help isn’t help if it isn’t helpful.” The Pathways Learning Network convened on November 30 to learn how to meaningfully engage trauma survivors and develop policies that support them at the state and local levels. In this session, participants learned about concrete and actionable strategies to effectively involve people with lived experience in policymaking and program implementation. Cherene Caraco, Executive Director of the Promise Resource Network, and William Kellibrew, an international advocate for trauma survivors, each experienced traumatic life events as children that changed the trajectory of their lives and helped inform careers dedicated to helping others heal. Both Cherene and William now work with policymakers and trauma survivors to develop networks of support and advocate for trauma-responsive policies across sectors and systems. Subscribe to tune into future videos in this series and to learn more about trauma-responsive programs to adopt in your community. Like Pathways to Resilience on Facebook:   / pathwaysus   Follow on Twitter:   / pathwaysus   Follow on Instagram:   / pathways_us   Follow on LinkedIn:   / pathwaysus   Check out our website for blog content: https://pathways-us.org/ Sign up for our mailing list: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/s... #PathwaystoResilience #ChartingthePath