ABOUT US

A Coalition for Change

We Heal Together is a community-centered coalition for change in East Winston. The initiative centers healing, the building of healthy relationships, and the alignment of resources that move us together toward what East Winston wants and needs to thrive.

Every year, millions are invested in local research in Forsyth County, addressing issues like housing, education, food access, and beyond. However, this research often overlooks the crucial step of involving the community from the start.

This initiative aspires to change this by ensuring that the research that forms the foundation of the We Heal Together Initiative begins with the community, values their experiences, and invites them to co-lead the process.

To make good on this commitment, We Heal Together is working with the Peoples’ Research Council—a new community-led initiative to put people in charge of local research.  learn more

Centered in Community

By centering the community in our work, we align research with advocacy and take direction from the community on how to achieve meaningful change. Our goal is to improve peoples’ lives and create a more liberated community with greater autonomy over the issues that impact their lives the most.

NEWS

WSJS We Heal Together Interview

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We Heal Together Winston-Salem Holds Ribbon Cutting and Community Kickoff Celebration

A new initiative called We Heal Together Winston-Salem will host a celebration of community collaboration and change efforts. The celebration will focus on the initiative’s work to build upon the already existing assets of the East Winston-Salem community, further enhancing efforts to create and sustain trauma-resilience in the community.

Upcoming Community Events

February

19

Youth Mental Health First Aid

St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church
February 19  |  8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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March

18

Youth Mental Health First Aid

St Stephen Missionary Baptist Church
March 18  |  8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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We intentionally build connections where we feel seen, heard, held and understood. We build relationships where we are accepted as, and expected to be, our very unique, vulnerable and authentic selves.

Healing involves knowing the conditions of history, speaking and acting truthfully and finding wholeness together. All of us.

This is a community working together to transform systems with approaches that are healing instead of traumatizing.

We Heal Together Participant

Contributing to Our Thriving Community

In order to move the needle and achieve better outcomes, it requires that we work in stronger and more meaningful collaboration with one another. We Heal Together is part of a growing movement called Thriving Together with the purpose of driving our community toward the common north of everyone thriving, no exceptions. Thriving Together is helping build and strengthen networks, aligning our work toward stronger, vital conditions for wellbeing and justice.