Take Up Space, You Matter!: Fostering (Re)Connection After the Pandemic Through Trauma-Informed Community Arts Programming was a joint initiative between Dr. Charity Marsh (HRI) and Dr. Nathalie Reid (CTRC) with community partners GRR!, Vibes YQR, and Femmes Across the Board. 

Throughout May and June 2022 the research team, along with facilitators from the community partner organizations, hosted a series of workshops on songwriting, street dance, and skateboarding. Prior to the workshop series all facilitators took part in a training workshop focusing on trauma-informed arts based approaches. 

This toolkit offers up resources for trauma-informed training for facilitators and programming guidelines for organizers to host their own workshop series. Below you will find a manual that can be adapted to deliver to your facilitators, recordings of various presentations delivered to the public by the research team, outcomes that have emerged from the research project, and more!