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.
C: Collaborative
- At ICOY, collaboration means building bridges between people, organizations, and systems to create shared solutions and work toward mutually beneficial futures.
A: Approaches to
- We all hold our own experiences that shape the expertise we bring to the table, so we invite everyone to pull up a chair, because we can't do what we do without YOU!
R: Resilience,
- Resilience means more than having the strength to simply survive trauma—our services normalize the healing process as an integral part of Trauma-Informed Care.
E: Education, and
- The most sustainable and impactful changes are made at the community level. We’re committed to partnering with and empowering communities to break down barriers to learning and resource sharing.
S: Support
- While providing quality technical assistance and capacity-building services is a priority, our role does not stop there. We’re committed to supporting the continued growth of our clients, because Trauma-Informed Care is a journey, not a destination.
Mission & Values
Mission
ICOY CARES aims to uplift champions of Trauma-Informed Care. Through partnerships rooted in collective care, we support individuals and organizations in their commitment to education, capacity building, and organizational change to emerge as trauma-informed leaders in their fields and communities.
Values
ICOY's Trauma Team envisions Collaborative Approaches to Resilience, Education, and Support (CARES). We strive to ensure the work and its impact are sustainable through the implementation of Trauma-Informed Care principles into the practices and frameworks for organizational staff and their clients. Together, we can better serve organizations to support and empower communities and create empathetic systems.
How Can CARES Support Organizations?
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.
CARES Trauma-Informed Services Inventory
Interested in Collaborating or Learning More?
Here's a little more information about the ICOY CARES process:
FAQs
Contact Us!
To submit an inquiry about receiving CARES services at your organization, please click here.
With all other questions, please email the Trauma Initiatives team at trauma_initiatives@icoyouth.org.
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. Trauma Specialist, Marlee Goodman, and Quality Assurance Manager, 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.
Marlee Goodman (she/her): Marlee Goodman is the services and facilitation lead for CARES. In this role she is responsible for all partnership communication; including inquiries, content walkthroughs, and service debriefs. As the lead facilitator for all CARES services, she is the point person for all content creation, resource development, consultation needs, as well as a liaison between CARES partnerships and ICOY’s Trauma Initiatives Team. Marlee’s trauma-informed, restorative, and intersectional approach to the work can be felt in every aspect of the CARES process, from initial inquiry to the materials she creates and delivers. As CARES continues to grow, she is committed to supporting organizations in their journey to not only dismantle oppressive systems, but to center communities in making healing accessible and sustainable.
Karina Velazquez (she/her): Karina is the administrative lead for CARES. In this role, she standardizes internal processes, trauma-informed services coordination, and all corresponding logistics, such as contract development, event planning, and invoicing. Karina’s additional responsibilities include data tracking and management for all contracted services. As CARES continues to grow, Karina is dedicated to and passionate about partnering with organizations and paving a path for personalized processes and procedures that support strong foundations and team cultures.
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.
