HUT

HUT Program

Healing Us Together (HUT)

HEALING US TOGETHER (HUT) is a community-driven behavioral health intervention within the Trauma-Informed Healing Ecosystem (TIHE Baltimore), an emerging local interagency collaboration co-produced with Baltimore City residents. It has support from system partners and several community-based organizations, including those working with youth, adults, and families exposed to violence and other traumatic stress in Baltimore City.

• Trauma-Informed Approach
• Community Collaboration
• Multi-Age Support

• Holistic Healing
• Positive Community Impact
• Accessible Resources

Discover Our 5-Week Coaching Series

HUT offers a comprehensive 5-week train-the-trainer healing-centered community conversations coaching series. Our program equips individuals with the skills to facilitate healing-centered community conversations using the S.E.L.F (Self, Emotions, Loss, Future) Group Community Conversations Curriculum. This curriculum is a strengths-based psychoeducational and empowerment model designed to help people with high rates of vicarious and direct exposure to community violence shift their understanding of these experiences and other challenges in their lives.

Community Collaboration

HUT is a community-driven behavioral health intervention within the Trauma-Informed Healing Ecosystem (TIHE Baltimore). It’s an emerging local interagency collaboration co-produced with Baltimore City residents and has the support of system partners and several community-based organizations. HUT serves individuals, including youth, adults, and families who have been exposed to violence and other traumatic stress in Baltimore City.

For more details or to express your interest in our upcoming training, don’t hesitate to get in touch with a dedicated HUT Coordinator.

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Collaborative Partnerships

We would like to acknowledge and express our appreciation to the following collaborators who have played a vital role in our journey:

• Gwen Brown – Behavioral Health System Baltimore (BHSB).
• Terri Holley – Each Teach, Inc.
• Bishop Jerry Diggs – New Israelite Family Worship Center (CDC).
• Pastor Joyce- God’s Sacred Place of Worship.
• Pastor Carolyn Marshall – New Refuge Deliverance Cathedral Church.
• Pastor Ronald Covington – St. John’s Transformation Baptist Church.
• Valencia Warnock King- Keightongton Group.
• Gifting Girls to Grow.
• Confirmation Consultants.
• Set The Standard, LLC.
• JD Motors.
• The Carroll Improvement Neighborhood Association

Additional Help Resources

Disaster Distress Helpline

• Provides immediate crisis counseling for people who are experiencing emotional distress.
• The helpline is free, multilingual, confidential, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Call 1-800-985-5990
• Text “TalkWithUs” to 66746 https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline

The National Domestic Violence Hotline

• Trained expert advocates are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
•  Provides free, confidential support to anyone experiencing domestic violence or seeking resources and information.
•  Help is available in Spanish and other languages.
• Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
  https://www.thehotline.org/

The National Sexual Assault Hotline

• Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via phone or online chat.
•  Connects those who have been sexually assaulted with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in their area that offers access to a range of free services.
•  Call 800-656-HOPE (4673)
  https://hotline.rainn.org/online

Call 988 for emergency emotional support. Safe, supportive, confidential. Available 24/7

Recruitment Letter

“A healing-centered community conversation and problem-solving process for communities that integrates S.E.L.F Community Conversations.”

Please join us so we can support you!

Dear Community Participant:

A strength of Baltimore City neighborhoods is its residents, who have deep social ties in the fabric of their neighborhoods to help strengthen community resilience and cure community violence. HUT recognizes among city residents are faith and other community leaders, who are regarded as trusted voices and nonconventional first responders to community mental health and emotional crises, especially in communities of color. Those leaders continuously help on the frontlines to mitigate crises, including the lingering impact of COVID-19 and racial trauma pandemics. Anecdotal evidence reveals houses of worship are the first places BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) seek support with addressing wellness needs. Many faith and other community leaders and mental health service providers are helping other people deal with traumatic stress. In addition, they are encountering the same stressors as violence, poverty, discrimination, and grief/loss– even when it doesn’t happen to them directly.

Healing Us Together (HUT) is a 5-sessions train-the-trainer healing-centered community conversations coaching series to coach individuals on how to facilitate healing-centered community conversations using the S.E.L.F Group Community Conversations Curriculum, which is a strengths-based psychoeducational and empowerment model that helps people with high rates of vicarious and direct exposure to community violence shift their understanding of these experiences and other challenges in their lives. HUT is offering support to people in the community, including those working with youth, adults, and families who are exposed to violence and other traumatic stress in Baltimore City. New Israelite Family Worship Center (NIFWC) and New Israelite Community Development Corporation (NICDC) are HUT’s existing lead coordinating agencies.

HUT offers you a chance to meet regularly with other residents, including faith and community leaders and mental health service providers, to share your experiences, get support and encouragement, and suggest self-care strategies so you protect your own mental health while you also keep effectively helping others. HUT uses a strength-based framework that posits that safe spaces and specific structured conversations enhance the capacity for healthy coping strategies. HUT uses hybrid discussion groups led by peer facilitators skilled in supporting individuals to maintain their mental, emotional, and physical wellness by building in peer support activities. HUT is a community-driven behavioral health intervention.

HUT leadership invites you to participate in HUT on behalf of the New Israelite Community Developer Corporation and New Israelite Family Worship Center. You will engage in community conversations to support our collective healing and wellness. HUT sessions will begin online using Zoom on    July 2, 2024, through July 30, 2024, with five (5) 90-minute sessions once a week for the following HUT meeting times: Tuesdays 6:00 p.m.-7:30 PM

Please follow the link to complete the ( HUT Enrollment Form ) by June 17, 2024. The Zoom link for the meeting will be forthcoming.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Bishop Diggs

[email protected] to connect with a HUT Coordinator.

Thank you, and we look forward to serving and supporting you!