Arizona State University's Office of Community Health, Engagement, and Resiliency (ASU OCHER) serves as a transdisciplinary, cross-university community-engaged research unit for ASU’s School of Social Work in Tucson, Arizona.
Our mission is to co-create interventions with communities that focus on inherent strengths and assets that promote resiliency, especially with underserved communities of color, and to create or strengthen pathways of opportunity for all people to achieve their full potential.
As such, we are deeply embedded in communities to promote health, well-being, and resiliency hand-in-hand with our community partners. Our work aims to build community capacity and solve complex social problems through partnership in order that we are all stronger, communities are empowered, and together we achieve positive social change.
Mahalo for this. Very appreciative of the nuanced explanation of the boundary examples and description of how firm or loose they can be perceived as. It's like a fish trying to understand the concept of water--for some very ingrained in a trauma response of being self sacrificing or fawning, understanding boundaries is hard to grasp. The understanding of how costly compassion fatigue and burnout is often requires experiencing it in some way--though prevention and an upstream approach is obviously more preferential. And sometimes hearing these conversations in a multitude of ways finally allows the lesson to hit home. Would be curious about a talk of how the dangers of victim blaming and cognitive schema distortion affects systems in being traumatizing on a macrolevel. Thank you again!
