Building a Thriving
Compassionate Community (BTCC)
BTCC is a network of organizations and individuals collaborating to provide training, build relationships, and promote actionable change to address the root causes of social problems in Monroe County.
Building a Thriving Compassionate Community (BTCC) is an endeavor that includes a great many individuals and agencies in Monroe County, including Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County who collaborate to bring #smallmoments to the local community of Bloomington, Indiana. Please visit their website for more information about BTCC (http://www.btccbloomington.org/)!
Contact Prevention Coordinator Allison Zimpher-Hoerr at Youth Services Bureau at Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County, (812) 349-2506 or via email at azhoerr@co.monroe.in.us.
Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge
BTCC was selected to participate in a national competition. The challenge is to make Monroe County the BEST PLACE ON EARTH TO BE A KID! BTCC represents a diverse group of local stakeholders working to create a safer, more stable, and nurturing community and are leading an effort to make Monroe County, Indiana the best place in the country to be a child. Through engaging in a collective impact approach, BTCC will act as the backbone support for seventeen cross-sector agencies, organizations, and coalitions to improve the conditions of Monroe County to ensure that all children have optimal environments to grow, live, learn and play. Visit the BTCC website for more information about the cross-sector partners and what they have been up to in Monroe County, Indiana.
BTCC's MC3
Monroe County Childhood Conditions Summit
“If what surrounds us truly does shape us, then the Summit will shape individuals who already care about children to turn their advocacy into action. An amazing experience!” - participant comment
BTCC joined Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County to coordinate and host the first MC3 Monroe County Childhood Conditions Summit. What surrounds us shapes us was both a grounding and guiding idea for the summit. About 170 community members convened at the Convention Center with opportunities for learning across the social ecology (relationships, organizations, community, society):
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Workshop options, including those focused on primary prevention and implicit bias, invited participants to look both upstream and deep within.
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An SSNRE (safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and environments) panel workshop, with guests from Cook, Ivy Tech, Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, and the Indiana Institute for Working Families, encouraged participants to learn from and brainstorm with practitioners.
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In Achieving Allyship, participants strategized to ways offer allyship that meets the needs of others rather than their own.
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Participants had two advocacy-related choices, one focused on legislative advocacy at the state level and the other looking at relationships and storytelling as vehicles for advocacy. Another workshop offering explored the impact of trauma on brain development.
