Community Corner
Cartersville Leader Has 'Committed His Life To Serving Others'
Douglas Belisle is the Executive Director at Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter & on the state board for Georgia Family Connection.
Cartersville, GA — Without community leaders, Cartersville wouldn’t hum along nearly as smoothly as it does. We’d miss their contributions in big and small ways.
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This submission comes from Ruth Keene, a Cartersville reader who nominated Douglas Belisle.
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How do you know the community leader?
I have had the privilege of knowing this great leader in many of the facets of his career.
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What does this community leader do?
Douglas is the Executive Director at Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter. He is on the state board for Georgia Family Connection. He is the interim pastor at Woffords Crossroads Baptist Church and has served as interim at other churches in Bartow County (Taylorsville & Kingston). He is a Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) practitioner, which is a trauma-informed intervention model for a wide range of childhood behavioral problems. He has helped develop and teach a Trauma 101 and Poverty 101 course used by Family Connection all over NW GA. He is a trainer for Stewards of Children, a child abuse prevention training and he is a Connections Matter facilitator. Connections Matter is a training designed to engage community members in building caring connections to improve resiliency, prevent childhood trauma and understand how our interactions with others can support those who have experienced trauma. He is a member of the Bartow Georgia Initiative for Community Housing and a founding board member for Recovery Bartow. He is also a member of the Bartow/Cartersville workforce development second chance hiring task force and has been on the steering committees for Leadership Bartow and Chaired the Youth Leadership Bartow.
Why do you believe the community leader should be recognized or honored?
I believe his service to our community activates the desire to serve in everyone he meets.
What's one thing you want everyone to know about the community hero?
He is a very positive person who has committed his life to serving others.
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