From Trauma to Resilience: Building Economies That Heal, Not Harm.

We are the institute bridging community-scale economic strategy with individual well-being and care. Our mission is to transform communities by integrating trauma-informed practices into every layer of development, ensuring growth fundamentally improves human prosperity.

The TIEDI Difference: Linking Individual Care to Community Prosperity

The failure of traditional economic models lies in separating human well-being from policy and investment. We reject this separation. TIEDI’s methodology is built on the critical understanding that improving community well-being—from mental health access to social cohesion—is the single greatest economic development strategy available.

How We Bridge the Gap:

• **Community Scale Professionals:** Economic developers, municipal leaders, planners, and policy makers.
• **Individual Scale Healers:** Licensed practitioners, social workers, public health experts, and trauma specialists.

The Result: Our work shifts communities from being reactive to crisis to being **proactively healing and economically resilient**, leading to sustainable growth that genuinely improves residents’ lives and links care systems directly into infrastructure planning.

Specialized Solutions for Systemic Change and Immediate Impact

Success Built on Methodological Integrity

Our method guarantees success because we guide clients to **do the project better.** Founder Shane Farthing's 20+ years of success—where others failed—stems directly from the established application of trauma-informed methodologies within economic development:

• **De-Risking Community Action:** Employing validation and transparent processes to neutralize community objections rooted in historical trauma and mistrust.
• **Methodological Proof:** Successfully implementing projects by bridging the individual's need for validation and safety with the community's need for economic investment.

Practitioners and Partners: Join the Movement to Build a Healing Economy

We are actively building a national network of specialized practitioners, advisors, and affiliates committed to integrating healing expertise into community and economic practice. If you are a licensed therapist, social worker, public health specialist, or a community development expert with a deep understanding of trauma, we invite you to collaborate.

Your expertise is essential to transforming community well-being from a social service expense into a **driver of economic resilience.**

We are actively seeking:

• **Affiliate Practitioners:** To co-facilitate workshops, deliver localized training, and integrate specialized social/emotional expertise into our consulting projects.
• **Advisory Board Candidates:** To guide TIEDI's research and strategic direction, ensuring maximum integrity and impact.
• **Strategic Partners:** Foundations, academic institutions, and organizations that can co-sponsor training or co-apply for large integrated grants.

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