Alliance for Children
Challenge
Alliance for Children is an incredible resource in DFW. They protect Tarrant County children from child abuse through teamed investigations, healing services, and community education. Under one roof is the police department’s Crimes Against Children team, forensics, trauma therapies, financial support, and more.
Alliance’s team of 80 people is in need of their own support to help them manage the stress and overwhelm of this job.
Our partner Challenge of Tarrant County contracted us to provide the event for Alliance.
Approach
We created a custom, half-day event for the team that was part training and part retreat. They learned a variety of stress-reduction techniques they could use during their workday to continue to recover. Training covered the neuroscience behind this work, and we ended with an hour-long gentle trauma-informed yoga class. Participants could choose to sit in the chair for yoga, or get on a yoga mat.
Each participant received unlimited free access to The Daily Well for six months so they could continue trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness classes on their own.
Results
With overwhelming positive feedback from management and staff, the day was fun, insightful, and nourishing. They separated the day into two parts, breaking for a long potluck-style lunch.
As participants left for the day, many asked when the next one is. We’re currently working on a part two.