In 2019, Child Trends reported that “children exposed to traumatic life events are at significant risk for developing serious and long-lasting problems across multiple areas of development. However, children are far more likely to exhibit resilience to childhood trauma when (people working in) child-serving programs, institutions, and service systems understand the impact of childhood trauma, share common ways to talk and think about trauma, and thoroughly integrate effective practices and policies to address it.” In parallel to this groundbreaking report, Greater Twin Cities United Way began engaging child care centers to co-design the vision of a trauma-sensitive and resilience building region, to move promising practices beyond individual knowledge and skills to a network of people and organizations. From that, the 80×3 initiative was conceived and three core strategies emerged: 

Train, coach, and invest in early education educators and leaders in trauma-sensitive and resilience building care. 
Build capacity for centers to support families with parent education and systems navigation. 
Recruit new and retain existing early childhood educators.