Mission & Core Principles
Center for Optimal Brain Integration® (COBI)
"Giving Every Child and Adult a Voice"
"Growing Human(E) Beings"
A NorthStar and Heartfelt approach that promotes optimal brain integration so that all children and adults can have optimal health socially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.
Mission:
At the Center for Optimal Brain Integration®, we provide training and a range of services to support individuals, programs and communities to become trauma responsive and build capacity for coping, resilience and healing.
Core Principles
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Build Mutually Respectful and Trusting Relationships
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Understand Stress and Trauma
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Establish Safety and Predictability
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Focus on Strengths and Promote Coping, Resilience and Healing
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Build Empathy and Understanding: “What is Strong with You” versus “What is Wrong with You”
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Take Responsive Actions to Support Equity and Justice
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Plan and Engage for Sustainability
Terms and Symbols:
Northstar - We work with a sense of hope that toxic stress and trauma can and will be changed for the better over time as a result of individual, community and collective sources of strength, resilience, and perseverance
Heart - We focus on children’s, adults’, families’, programs’ and communities’ strengths, assets, capacities and promise
Optimal Brain Integration - The neurobiological foundations that support healthy development and optimize children and adults’ potential for learning, health and life success