The Family Center

The Family Center's (tfc) mission is breaking intergenerational cycles of childhood trauma. Its vision is creating resilient communities where all children thrive. Since 1985, tfc has served middle Tennessee with programs that help prevent and mitigate childhood trauma including abuse and neglect. It is licensed and accredited as a Tennessee child abuse prevention agency and has locations in nashville and murfreesboro. During The 2022/2023 fiscal year, The Family Center served 827 adults and impacted The lives of 910 children through our Family resilience programs and 1832 professionals received training/coaching through our organizational resilience efforts. Empowering families and our community to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships is key to ensuring children have necessary opportunities to become resilient adults (emotionally, psychologically, and physically). The Family Center utilizes evidence-based and research informed curricula that enhance understanding of developmental stages, brain development, adverse childhood experiences/adverse community environments (aces), trauma informed frameworks, parent/child attachment, enhanced Family communication, and positive discipline techniques, etc. To achieve our mission. Family resilience programs offer parents (including non-custodial parents, guardians, and others) groups and 1:1 Family coaching enhancing skills, behaviors, and overall parenting practices. Most families served are considered vulnerable due to Family histories including addiction, incarceration, poverty, discrimination, racism, and Family violence. Our programs offer hope in breaking cycles of trauma. Our organizational resilience training and coaching uses samhsa approved and other evidence- based curricula to provide staff in courts, jails, government agencies, businesses, and other nonprofits with information on and skills related to becoming trauma informed. These are often organizations with which The families we serve interact and ensuring those interactions occur through an empathetic awareness helps increase positive outcomes.