Helen Neal and Andrea Blanch, are co-founders of SRQ Strong, a nonprofit organization that was created to promote community-wide trauma awareness.
Website: SRQStrong
Helen Neal is a Level II Certified Trauma Specialist. Through her company, Life Changing Consulting & Associates, she motivates individuals and groups through personal and community empowerment training. Her most recent workshops teach participants to empower the wisdom they have inside of them to be the best that they can be.
SRQStrong Healing Working Group
Helen’s Book: “OK Forever: A Book of Hope”
Andrea Blanch, Ph.D., the President and Director of the Center of Religious Tolerance, has spent her life involved in social change movements, including second-wave feminism and the disability rights movement. More recently, she has been a leader in bringing trauma-informed approaches to service systems and communities across the country. She was a 2009 Fellow in the Women, Religion and Globalization program at Yale University, was awarded the 2010 annual Duisberg Peace Award by the Southwest Florida Coalition on Peace and Justice, and in 2012 received the Elisabeth Schilder Memorial Scholarship Award for her interfaith work with CRT. Andy is passionate about the power of grassroots organizing to bring about change and about the growing power of women to help shape a peaceful and sustainable future. She sees CRT as a vehicle to help support global transformation.
