National Healing-Centered Consulting
Healing isn't a program.
It's how the system is built.WeHealUS brings public will and private resources to the same table — building healing-centered infrastructure for nonprofits that no single sector could fund alone.
How we work
Three pillars, one table.
Healing-centered change rarely fails for lack of good intentions. It fails for lack of infrastructure. We build the three things that hold it up.
01Public–private partnerships
Government, philanthropy, healthcare, and grassroots at the same table — funding infrastructure that no single sector could build alone.
02Marketing & movement-building
Outside-the-box campaigns that carry healing-centered work out of the clinic and into the public square, where the will to change actually lives.
03Trauma-informed consulting
Patient, steady strategic partnership for the leaders doing the long, unglamorous work of changing how a system treats people.
Our origins
It began with a question.
In 2020, in the aftermath of a community tragedy in Springfield, Illinois, a small group of women came together with a single question: what would it look like to do this differently?
The country was in the early months of a pandemic, and the old models — siloed, individual, reactive — were visibly failing the people who needed them most. Those conversations became the Illinois Light Initiative, and the conversations turned into advocacy.
A resolution doesn't heal a community. But it changes what's possible to say out loud in a legislature — and that changes what's possible to build.
In 2021, that advocacy contributed to Illinois Senate Resolution SR0301, committing the legislature to acknowledge the principles of trauma in policy and to move from a siloed approach toward a collaborative, person-centered one. What we learned there became the foundation for everything since: that healing-centered work belongs in policy and partnership, not just clinical settings.
What carried forwardCoalitions move farther than organizations.
Founded in Illinois during the pandemic, WeHealUS grew into a coalition that, at its peak, united nearly 100 organizations across 14 states. That reach taught us the lesson we still build on: the most important work is often the quiet work of bringing the right people to the same table.
We are all in this together. Together, WeHealUS.
Every May
Once a year, we go public.
Our consulting runs year-round and mostly out of view. But each May — Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Month — the #WeHealUS Campaign takes the work into the open. It's the most visible expression of what we do, and our recurring invitation for partners to join us.
Annual virtual summitScars to STARs Summit
A global virtual gathering, co-organized with the STAR Network Foundation, bringing survivors, professionals, and partners together to advance trauma-informed healing.
Explore the summit →Recent campaignPut 988 where people can find it
Our 2026 campaign asked every elected official in America to feature the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline on their official website — one small, visible act of leadership.
See the 2026 campaign →Year-round consulting
Working on healing-centered transformation in your organization?
Twenty years of policy, partnership, and practice — at the table with you. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, agencies, and executive teams navigating trauma-informed change.
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