ICOY CARES
CARES is part of ICOY’s comprehensive range of services, distinguished by its unique focus on Collaborative Approaches to Resilience, Education, and Support. CARES is specifically designed around trauma-informed principles and frameworks. These principles not only shape CARES’s strategies, but also guide its approach to forming partnerships, conducting trainings, and enhancing capacity building services. This distinctive emphasis ensures that CARES not only supports but empowers individuals and organizations through a deeply informed and empathetic approach.
CARES (Collaborative Approaches to Resilience, Education, and Support) prioritizes understanding and responding to the impact of trauma on individuals and communities. This foundation not only informs our partnerships but also shapes our trainings and capacity-building efforts.
Let's Talk!
Use this form to book a meeting with our CARES Team. We can't wait to work with you!
Here's a little more information about how the ICOY CARES planing process goes.
CARES Resources
Training/Facilitation - Facilitation of standard or customized training/team building/processing space for your team or organization
Technical Assistance/Capacity Building - Consultation and action planning for organizational policies, practices and goals, compilation of toolkits, and creation of specialized resources.
CBAT-O - This is a standardized assessment used to gauge areas of strength and growth in Trauma-Informed Care.
Meet the Team
ICOY houses a variety of incredible teams, one of which being the Trauma Initiative’s Team. ICOY’s Trauma Initiatives Team is distributed among a number of projects and contracts, one of which being CARES. Manager of Healing-Centered Community Support, Marlee Goodman, and Coordinator of Education & Resource Development, Karina Velazquez, are the leads for CARES and will be with your team every step of the way during the CARES process. Read more about them by clicking their pictures below.
ICOY CARES is dedicated to collaboration internally and externally. Each member of ICOY’s Trauma Initiatives team has a unique specialty and skillset. To provide the best services, CARES will sometimes use a co-facilitation model to bring you the most personalized expertise our team has to offer. The team works together to analyze and update training decks to meet the specific needs of each client, whether that be focusing on the organization, the audience, or the community they serve, in regard to trauma and healing. This collaboration helps support not only the goals and mission of ICOY CARES, but of each organization we partner with. Director of Trauma Initiatives Gabriela Zamora, Trauma Specialist Grace Shine, and Trauma Specialist Pearl McRae will also support the CARES Team on an as-needed basis.
Contact Us!
To inquire about receiving CARES services at your organization, please click here to schedule a meeting with our team.
For all other questions, please email the CARES team at trauma_initiatives@icoyouth.org.
