Healing Communities Through Trauma-Informed Practice

Karen Simms, consultant, therapist and founder of a Champaign County trauma and resilience initiative, spoke on healing communities through trauma-informed practice. She argued that racism is prejudice joined to institutional power, described structural violence and collective trauma, and cited local examples including the Champaign schools consent decree and a local sex-trafficking case. Q&A followed. Fall 2021 Friday Forum and Conversation Cafe series "Unpacking Racism: What Are We Carrying?", co-presented with campus diversity education partners.