Trauma-Informed Adolescent Development Program
Lookout’s Complex Trauma-Informed Adolescent Development Program partners with government agencies, non-profits and university researchers that develop, implement and/or disseminate innovative trauma-informed interventions and services for adolescents to grow in competence and capacity to live productive and generative lives. The programmatic focus is on securing long term wrap-around care, as well as improving health, education and juvenile corrections paradigms. Lookout support targets organizations that take a complex trauma-informed approach to providing services and training, as well as those that conduct research and policy advocacy. Support in this program area can include but is not limited to research into innovative approaches to advance recovery from trauma, training for caregivers and clinicians, and embedding complex trauma-informed treatment services and staff into adolescent-serving organizations.
Sustainable Agriculture & Forestry
Lookout’s Sustainable Agriculture & Forestry Program partners with initiatives that support and commit long term to a regional strategy of conserving and managing the woodlands, wildlands and farmlands of New England. The programmatic focus is on agriculture, land conservation and forestry, with an eye to pairing local economic viability with ecological and environmental responsibility. Support targets organizations that have a mission and strategic approach to model innovative and proven methodologies, conduct research, manage and improve New England agricultural and forest resources, and educate stakeholders and the public. Support in this program area can include but is not limited to increasing local economic viability and community engagement and securing conservation of high priority and vulnerable farmlands and forests.