Our story

Tennessee Resilience Project (TRP) is a grace-given and grace-driven non-profit offering asset and education-building opportunities for economically challenged families. In addition to fostering financial and educational growth, TRP is committed to promoting mental health and healthcare well-being as essential components of resilience. Through these holistic opportunities, we aim to help elevate our families’ circumstances. Long-term success is our goal, and access to a strong foundation of social knowledge, emotional support, and health resources is our starting point.

goals

• Increase access to stable housing for low-income families in Tennessee through partnerships, funding, and service expansion—while incorporating mental health and healthcare resources as part of a comprehensive support system.
• Raise public awareness and influence housing policy by engaging communities, sharing stories, and maintaining consistent communication with state lawmakers—highlighting the critical links between housing, mental health, and overall well-being.
• Improve program effectiveness by applying data-driven insights and proven strategies to reduce the number of economically strained families and housing security across the state, with a strong emphasis on integrated mental health support and healthcare access.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Tennessee Resilience Project (TRP) is a grace-driven nonprofit dedicated to building assets and expanding educational opportunities for economically challenged individuals and families. In light of recent upheavals in funding streams, TRP is entering a season of rebuilding with renewed focus and urgency responding to the most desperate and pressing needs of our community.

The core mission of TRP remains the same: to ensure that every program and opportunity offered contributes meaningfully to the long-term success and well-being of participating families. However, we now recognize more deeply than ever that economic stability cannot be achieved without addressing the full spectrum of challenges our families face including mental health, healthcare access, and emotional resilience.

TRP, alongside a dedicated group of partner agencies in Williamson County, is committed to consistently addressing the issue of housing and economically strained families. Our model integrates education, housing support, family coaching, financial counseling, and employment navigation now enhanced by trauma-informed care, mental health support, and a focus on healthcare well-being. These components are not supplemental, but essential to helping families move from crisis to stability and, ultimately, to lasting independence.

By meeting people where they are and walking with them toward their self-identified goals, TRP supports families in gaining not just stability, but dignity, confidence, and hope. We believe that holistic investment in struggling American families will yield long-term dividends we cannot afford to overlook economically, socially, and spiritually.

BUILDING ASSETS

Building assets is essential for low-income working families. The programs that TRP will offer will educate and establish self-sufficiency standards. The Executive Director has decades of knowledge working with families experiencing poverty and other adverse social realities. This organization will use that knowledge to administer prevention, diversion and rapid-rehousing strategies in building social capital, for re-establishing and maintaining stability. For example; case managers walking participating families through asset building strategies for real life scenarios. Understanding credit, the importance of banking, and rental and ownership counseling are examples.

The specialty of the Tennessee Resilience Project (TRP) board is built around education and finance. Board members are comprised of educators and financial brokers who understand the fundamental basis of this work. The Executive Director will ensure that staff has extensive experience in the needs of the demographic we will serve to operate at a high level. It is critical that staff be trained to understand poverty, racial equity, and generational strategic targeting (2 generation approach). Through already established partnerships TRP will continue building a curriculum that can be eventually replicated. The Executive Director is committed to these areas as well as all other activities laid out in the business plan.

Tennessee Resilience Project (TRP) recognizes that access to healthcare is fundamental to long-term stability and self-sufficiency. In response, the organization is expanding its mission to include health literacy, preventative care navigation, and connection to affordable medical and mental health services. This includes guiding families through enrolling in insurance programs, identifying local providers, and understanding their healthcare rights. Partnerships with community clinics and health advocates will support our clients in addressing chronic health conditions and maintaining overall well-being. The Executive Director brings a trauma-informed lens to this work, ensuring that all services are delivered with dignity and cultural competence. By embedding healthcare initiatives into our broader support model, TRP continues to prioritize holistic care and long-term resilience for every family served.