Community Possibilities

Building Trust-based Relationships Across Communities: Meet Mary Margaret Mauer from Restoration Rome

January 25, 2023 Episode 37
Community Possibilities
Building Trust-based Relationships Across Communities: Meet Mary Margaret Mauer from Restoration Rome
Show Notes

In this episode, Dr. Mary Margaret Mauer joins me to talk about Restoration Rome and trauma-informed approaches to working with her community in Rome, GA. Mary Margaret and her husband Jeff co-founded Restoration Rome,  a long with multiple community members and agencies. 

In this episode we discuss:

  • How she and Jeff came to understand the brokeness foster care system
  • How this understanding led to a vision for one place where people can serve others and create a space for those needing services
  • Restoration Rome a 1-stop hub for foster, adoption, and family services that provides mental health support, resources, parent support and training, health care, community support
  • How she came to value a Trauma-Informed approach and became a passionate advocate for Trust-based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
  • Creating a common understanding and language across sectors
  • Why relationships are the key for healing and how TBRI provides a frameowrk that works for understanding others
  • What other community-based organizations and coalitions can learn from the work of Restoration Rome
  • Their biggest challenges and how have they have met them


Mary Margaret Mauer Bio

Mary Margaret Mauer is a passionate advocate, community organizer, and educator on behalf of foster, adoptive, and at-risk children and families. Focused on developing innovative, community-based solutions to the systemic issues contributing to family dissolution and on empowering all who interact with children and families from trauma histories with the knowledge and skills to provide hope and lasting healing.

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