by Hawa Shir, Program Coordinator, Westbrook Partners for Prevention
During the past few years, people have been facing a variety of adverse challenges in their individual lives. Collectively, those individual challenges have impacted communities as a whole. Communities experience adverse situations together. However, connectedness can be lost when bombarded with various disasters and tragedies. Having strong and equitable structures in place to create systems where community resilience can prosper is important for the well-being of everyone in the community! Without strong connections, people may not feel comfortable asking for help and could turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms such as substance use.
