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A community-driven initiative dedicated to building a healthier, stronger future for our children and families. Our project focuses on creating systems changes that prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and foster resilience in Del Norte County and Tribal Lands.
Candace Tinkler

Addressing rural clinician shortages by empowering everyday community members through active listening, shared storytelling, and peer support.

Moving from judgment to empathy, showing how community connection and mutual support help us navigate unexpected hardships and rural isolation together.

Moving beyond conventional clinical labels to address historical trauma, creating a protective community safety net so future generations can thrive.

Drawing inspiration from redwood root systems that fuse together to nourish saplings, illustrating why community resilience requires supporting one another.

Harnessing traditional cultural practices and stick games to teach youth civic responsibility, brotherhood, and active service to community elders.

Demonstrating how authentic local networks provide suicide prevention, crisis stability, and trusted belonging through life’s darkest challenges.

Highlighting youth mental health through lived experience, showing how positive peer connection and simple acts of kindness break through loneliness.

Showcasing how youth arts and marching band create a sense of home, helping students overcome housing instability and social anxiety to graduate.
Rooted in Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model, our programs are intentionally designed to honor the way the human brain heals and grows. By creating safe, rhythmic spaces that help calm the nervous system and deepen everyday connections, we make space for real learning, personal growth, and lasting community resilience.

Young people gain hands-on job skills while sharing heartfelt conversations with community elders. It’s a creative space built on real mentorship, storytelling, and bridge-building across generations.

Our small reading groups explore books like Dr. Perry’s What Happened to You? and Hunt, Gather, Parent. It’s a cozy, supportive space to process ideas, share stories, and learn together.

Designed for moms and little ones to get outdoors, recharge, and find friends. Moving through nature together helps both parents and kids calm their nervous systems and build supportive, lasting friendships.

We help neighbors gather over food and train local "connectors" with access to community resources. Having a trusted neighbor in an emergency reduces sadness and builds real resilience.

This coalition brings leaders from diverse sectors into one shared space. Powered by an inspiring group of community members, we collaborate, share resources, and weave the Neurosequential Model into everyday local practices.

Our big annual gathering brings everyone together for delicious food, fun, and learning. It’s a joyful space to discover how Dr. Perry’s Neurosequential Model fits into everyday life, equipping families, youth, and neighbors with practical tools to thrive.
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Resilient DNATL is a project of the California Health Collaborative. Their mission is to change lives by improving health & wellness.
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