Mission

CTI Chicago is a collaborative of cross-sector leaders who are working to ensure the safety and wellbeing of Chicagoans at every stage of life by facilitating, encouraging, and accelerating trauma-informed systems change.

CTI Chicago seeks to create responsive systems and healing-centered communities by:

• Building knowledge about the causes, including structural racism, and impacts of interpersonal, generational and systems trauma;
• Amplifying and aligning related trainings, events, research, and advocacy;
• Tracking, documenting and sharing data from existing and emerging TI efforts to show the collective impact of Chicago’s journey to becoming a trauma-informed city.

Vision

Chicagoans feel safe, can heal and thrive in a city that is working together to prevent and address the profound impacts of interpersonal, generational and systems harm caused by structural racism and trauma.