How ROI Thinks About Scale
Growth means different things to different organizations. Some organization measure growth by increases in revenue, widened customer base, or expansions to new markets.
ruralopportunity
May 2, 2023
Building Resilience in Rural Communities
Implement innovative, trauma-informed, solutions to build resilience in your community.
Who We Are
Rural Opportunity Institute builds the capacity of rural communities to support people’s healing from generational trauma to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination.
ROI supports youth, organizations, and communities in rural North Carolina to interrupt the cycle of generational trauma and design innovative solutions for healing & resilience.
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
Trauma Impacts
Whole Communities
At ROI, we believe rural communities are capable, strong, and deeply resilient. We harnessed the wisdom of the community in Edgecombe County, NC, to create a systems map to reveal that at the heart of poverty, education inequality, and health inequity lay one core theme: trauma.
People and organizations often respond to stress and trauma with punishment and isolation.
We need to work together to replace these punitive practices with restorative practices that remove the barriers to healing.
Community
engagement builds
power and resilience
ROI combines big ideas with grassroots leadership and community ownership to create systems change. Here’s how we’re doing it:
Resilient Community Members
Understanding how trauma impacts us and what we can do to heal on an individual and community level is the first step to building resilience.
Resilient Organizations
Resilient organizations are the backbone of a resilient community and ROI offers intensive, cohort-based programming that helps organizations implement restorative practices that reduce punishment.
Resilient Ideas
ROI tests small ideas to ignite systems change. Our Small Bets Lab explores promising but risky ideas that show potential to transform challenges rural communities face.
Resilient Resource Hub
Information can only catalyze change when it is shared. We believe in making information accessible to every community so they can learn from it.
Words from our Community
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ROI is the go-to organization in the eastern part of the state dealing authentically with issues that impact rural areas. The name “rural opportunities” is reflective of what they do.
ROI Funding Partner
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ROI knows from a systems-level how to create better outcomes in the community.
ROI Funding Partner
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ROI is breaking the cycle of generational trauma and poverty.
Edgecombe Community Member
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ROI is building a healthier Edgecombe County through trauma-informed training and collaboration.
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Build Resilience in
your community with
ROI’s tools and training
We partner with School Districts, First Responders, Public Agencies, and Community-Based Organizations on resilience building initiatives.
01.
Resilience & Breathing Cards
School Districts, therapists, family advocates, and many others use our Resilience and Breathing Cards to teach simple, powerful skills to help their students and clients to heal from trauma.
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
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Trauma & Resilience 101
Give your community or organization a basic understanding of how trauma and stress show up in their lives and how they can begin to heal.
03.
Reconnect for Resilience® Training
In partnership with Resources for Resilience, we’ve designed a 2-day training that equips your team, students, clients, or community with seven essential skills that lay the foundation for resilience, balance and wellbeing.
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
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Healing through Biofeedback Breathing
Support your community with evidence-based technology proven to decrease stress and increase health. Our Biofeedback Breathing program has shown transformational change in schools, prisons, and community-based settings.
Attend a Training or Community Meeting
Explore our upcoming no-cost training opportunities and community meetings.
Trauma & Resilience 101
A 90-minute awareness-building presentation about the impacts of stress and trauma on the body and brain and how to build resilience in local communities.
August 16, 2022 (11am-12:30am EST)
Trauma & Resilience 101
A 90-minute awareness-building presentation about the impacts of stress and trauma on the body and brain and how to build resilience in local communities.
November 15, 2022 (11am-12:30am EST)
Take Action
Contribute to our work with a donation, recurring gift, or multi-year pledge. No matter how big, your investment has a direct impact on building resources, health, safety, and connection in rural communities.
Resilient Insights
Information can only catalyze change when it is shared. We believe in making information accessible to every community so they can learn from it. Explore resources about resilience here.
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