Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services
There has been increasing attention towards the need for interventions to address and mitigate the role of trauma in individual and community wellbeing. The list of trauma-informed services and interventions seems to grow by the day. While these service developments are a welcome change from previous methods to improve community health and wellbeing, discussions with basebuilding community partners in 2018 have uplifted community-centered healing practices that have helped our communities to endure and survive over time. In 2020, with the unveiling of inequities by COVID-19, continuation of Black Lives Matter protests, and ongoing trauma caused by systemic bias and racism, these community-centered findings need to be (re)introduced. The purpose of this brief is to showcase the importance of addressing community trauma through identifying and making space for healing-centered practices that communities have evolved over time, acknowledging and understanding the roots of trauma, and addressing the persistent, structural causes of trauma. From Praxis’ intentional dialogues with basebuilding and frontline community organizers, we describe how trauma shows up in our communities and institutions, how it can be addressed through community- centered healing, and the role that trusted partners can take in supporting community healing.
Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
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The Praxis Project (2020, August). Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services. Retrieved from http://thepraxisproject.org/resource/2020/recognizing-healing-centered-community-practices
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