City of Tacoma announcement.
Tacoma, Wash. – The Tacoma City Council will recognize the partnership between the City of Tacoma and JCW & Associates to implement a community trauma response team (CTRT) with a proclamation at the Council Meeting on March 21 at 5 p.m. in Council Chamber (747 Market Street, 1st floor).
“Implementation of this team has taken time as we worked to find the right partners, and I am thrilled to see the program in action,” said Mayor Victoria Woodards. “I want to thank those who have persistently demanded a community-level response in times of crisis, as well as our Community Police Advisory Committee members for their dedication to seeing this work through.”
JCW & Associates has experience through their work, Tacoma Cease Fire, which has been working with Tacoma communities since 2019. Collectively their team has over 30 years of experience in trauma response. Their field of expertise include, but are not limited to, violence abatement, reduction and awareness, community mobilization, conflict mediation, teenage prostitution, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, advocacy, ministry, and being a liaison between law enforcement agencies, faith-based organizations and community.
Through this partnership, the community trauma response team will:
- Respond to crisis after a traumatic incident to assist the community in healing, and to provide a safe place for the community to express their opinions and concerns.
- Support and give referrals designed to offer immediate, compassionate and practical resources for community members impacted by trauma and serious loss.
- Focus on the community’s emotional needs while the Tacoma Police Department (TPD) and Tacoma Fire Department (TFD) focus on the incident response.
The team will consist of 15 to 20 culturally relevant community advocates, who sign up for a weekly call time and community volunteers will complete an initial crisis response training that will be identified by the respondent program, successfully complete a background check, and participate in ongoing monthly supervision and training.
Once trained, the team will be available to respond to traumatic incidents in Tacoma.
To volunteer or learn more contact apply@jcwandassociates.com. The proclamation can be watched in-person at the Tacoma Municipal Building (747 Market Street, 1st Floor), on ZOOM or streamed on TV Tacoma and Facebook.
That’s a long-winded way of saying “gun-control”, which is what this really is.
It’s in the name for crying out loud.
If you really cared about all of those other things, you would do something that changes the culture which commits the vast majority of those crimes.
Crime is a cultural thing no matter how much you try to repackage it as “mental health”, with it’s own budget and cast of characters.
Creating a problem through “soft on crime” policy, and then spinning up a response does not make you a hero, it makes you an accomplice.
Sneaking in through the back door to assassinate Constitutional freedom makes you a seditious criminal.
Y’all think you’re real clever coming at us as benevolent saviors, but every time you show up with a new program, some of our individual freedom slips away.
I’ve met you.
I’ve witnessed your mental state.
You’re freaking scary.
Excellently stated Brian. I see the “Defund the Police” programs that you all supported are working out well. I visited Tacoma yesterday and was shocked at the level of homelessness, garbage, and graffiti. You right you have a crisis but you created it and you continue to allow it to get worse with your ridiculous liberal policies. As i drove through what amounts to a third world country, at least i was using a paper straw to consume my beverage. Woke is a Joke and so are all liberal politicians.
There’s not much to add to that statement, it’s 100% accurate. I would say that the majority of Washington’s elected officials are far from Patriot citizens, they appear to border on the fringe of Communism and seem to forget their ” Oath of Allegiance” to the United States of America. Equally relevant; “they are suppose to represent WE THE PEOPLE, that supposedly, elected them. Stop pushing your personal agendas!
“Culturally relevant community advocates” ? Really? And who might that be? Did you mean to say “Activists”? And your verbiage in regards to the community Etc sounds like you’re addressing a 7 year old who is incapable of coping with anything having to do with modern society, and the consequences of their actions and those that they support. And I am also right on board with everything Mr. Borgelt said previously. When you finally address the drug addicts having campfires on the off ramps from the freeway then maybe someone will take you seriously for some of your other projects, until then not a chance