Community Program
Project Kinship Healing Institute
Understanding Trauma. Restoring Connection. Healing in Community.
The Project Kinship Healing Institute is a learning and training hub grounded in Project Kinship’s commitment to people, relationships, and community. We bring together research, professional practice, community wisdom, and lived experience to deepen our understanding of trauma and explore what helps people and communities heal. The Institute provides learning and healing experiences for Project Kinship staff and partners, as well as schools, educators, organizations, practitioners, and communities beyond Project Kinship. Because healing requires both knowledge and relationship.
Training For Project Kinship Beyond
The Healing Institute provides trainings, workshops, professional development, and community learning experiences within Project Kinship and for external partners.
We work with:
- Schools and educators
- Youth-serving organizations
- Social service and behavioral health professionals
- Community-based organizations
- Organizations, teams, and leaders
- Systems and community partners
Our learning can be tailored to the needs of each organization, school, team, or community.
What We Explore
Trauma & Its Impact
How trauma shapes the brain, body, behavior, relationships, and sense of safety.
Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Practice
Creating environments grounded in safety, dignity, connection, and healing.
Nervous System Regulation
Understanding stress, regulation, grounding, and practical tools for well-being.
Restorative Practices
Supporting accountability, repair, relationship, and community.
Resilience & Relational Healing
Building on strengths, relationships, and protective factors.
Community & Generational Healing
Honoring collective experiences, community strengths, and pathways to healing.
Belonging & Human Connection
Creating spaces where people feel seen, valued, and connected.
Learning That Changes Practice
We believe training should be more than information. It should influence how we see, how we respond, and how we create environments for others. For educators, organizations, practitioners, and community leaders, that means translating knowledge into practices that strengthen connection, belonging, safety, and healing. The Healing Institute connects learning to practice and knowledge to action.
Bringing People Together
The Healing Institute creates spaces where research meets lived experience and professional knowledge meets community wisdom. We bring together experts, practitioners, educators, community leaders, and people with lived experience because we know that some of the most important knowledge about healing cannot be found in a textbook. Our goal is not simply to teach people about trauma. It is to help create the conditions where healing is possible.
Healing In Community
Healing does not happen in isolation. It happens through relationships, connection, belonging, culture, and community. The Healing Institute creates opportunities for people to not only learn about healing, but to experience connection, reflection, restoration, and healing together. Because healing is not only something that happens within a person. Healing happens between us.
Contact
Bring The Healing Institute To Your Community
Interested in bringing trauma-informed, healing-centered, or restorative learning to your school, organization, team, or community? Connect with the Project Kinship Healing Institute.
training@projectkinship.org
