Urban Trauma & Restorative Practices with Dr. Maysa Akbar
Initiatives of Change USA is honored to partner with Dr. Ram Bhagat, Richmond Public Schools Manager of School Culture and Climate on Urban Trauma & Restorative Practices. This is a community dialogue on equity and justice in education featuring a keynote address by Dr. Maysa Akbar, author of Urban Trauma: A Legacy of Racism.
“It is important to view history as part of a complex algorithm, that defines the current status of Black communities all over this country. An important factor that is often left out of the calculation, is the role of Urban Trauma...Add to this a layer of stigma associated with mental health and you have a perfect combination of a group of people who live in pain and who suffer (sometimes silently, sometimes not so silently) but never get the appropriate treatment. Lack of therapeutic support, clinicians who are culturally competent, and access to appropriate treatment enables the continuation of intergenerational transmittal of racial trauma.”