CoHealing

Developed by colleague Dr. Jenny King at the Center on Trauma and Adversity at CWRU’s Mandel School and led by Michaela Jackson-Smith with community partners, CoHealing is a monthly group intervention aimed at supporting a more resilient network of trauma-informed healthcare providers. Indirect trauma, including burnout and secondary trauma, is an inevitable outcome of helping professionals who work with pregnant and postpartum families. This six month, guided and supportive community aims to reduce secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and isolation by providing self-regulation tools, relational connection as a coping resource, and education on the causes and symptoms of indirect trauma. 

If you are interested in bringing CoHealing to your workplace, please email firstyearcleveland@case.edu. Continuing Education is available for nursing, social work, family therapy, and counseling.

Developed and led in collaboration with community partners in response to what providers told us they need, the program was created by our colleague Dr. Jenny King at the Center on Trauma and Adversity at CWRU's Mandel School and led by Michaela Jackson-Smith with community practitioners. CoHealing is a monthly group intervention aimed at supporting a more resilient network of trauma-informed healthcare providers. Indirect trauma, including burnout and secondary trauma, is an inevitable outcome of helping professionals who work with pregnant and postpartum families. This six-month, guided and supportive community aims to reduce secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and isolation by providing self-regulation tools, relational connection as a coping resource, and education on the causes and symptoms of indirect trauma.

If you are interested in bringing CoHealing to your workplace, please email firstyearcleveland@case.edu. Continuing Education is available for nursing, social work, family therapy, and counseling.

FYC was established in December 2015 by community leaders who were alarmed by the rising infant mortality rate in Cuyahoga County. In a city with outstanding health care and supportive services, these leaders believed there was a way to develop an effective, comprehensive, and sustainable approach to solving infant mortality.

Today, this collaborative effort brings together parents and expectant parents, community leaders, philanthropic organizations, government and business entities, healthcare providers, educational institutions, nonprofits, and the faith-based community. These partners and many volunteers actively participate by identifying the underlying issues contributing to infant deaths and creating sustainable solutions.

We are focused on our mission of mobilizing the community through partnerships and a unified strategy to reduce infant deaths. Our work includes focused research, educational programs, community awareness initiatives, and policy changes to create conditions for thriving families and communities.

First Year Cleveland is housed at CWRU’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, its fiscal agent, and receives in-kind support for its operations.