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Wounded Places: Confronting Childhood PTSD in Americas Shell-Shocked Cities
PTSD isnt only about combat vets and survivors of natural disasters. Too many of our children, especially children of color living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, show the effects of unrelenting structural racism, street violence, domestic instability and other adversities. And their symptoms look a lot like post-traumatic stress disorder. Except for many, there is no post. Wounded Places travels to Philadelphia and Oakland where a long history of disinvestment and racial exclusion have ravaged entire neighborhoods and exposed children to multiple adverse childhood experiences (or ACEs). We meet families and some remarkable young people who have been traumatized not just by shootings, but fear, uncertainty and a sense of futurelessness.
We watch as Caheri Gutiérrez, Antonio Carter, Javier Arango and other young people wrestle with their hyper-vigilance, sudden rages, nightmares, inability to trust and difficulty concentrating in school. Now they themselves are counseling others, helping them to own their trauma. Yet police, teachers, the media, and even social service workers too often make things worse, pegging traumatized children not as injured and in need of healing but as bad or impaired.
For instance, in 2012 in Connecticut alone, 2,000 children aged six years and underoverwhelmingly black and Latinowere suspended from kindergarten and preschool, dramatically increasing their risk of eventually dropping out of school and being sent to prison. We also meet doctors, community organizers and peer counselors blazing a new model of trauma-informed care, including MacArthur Fellow John Rich, MD, Ted Corbin, MD, the director of Healing Hurt People, Dr. Sandra Bloom, the founder of the Sanctuary Model, and Youth UpRising! director Olis Simmons. Rather than ask, Whats wrong with you? they ask, What happened to you? and How can traumatized individuals and neighborhoods heal? The implications of this simple shift can be transformativefor those suffering from trauma, for neighborhoods and even for the providers themselves.
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LocationHaley House Bakery Cafe (View)
12 Dade Street
Roxbury, MA 02119
United States
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