"NCFY: What do you mean when you talk about “politicized” trauma-informed interventions?
McKenzie-Mohr: There are two aspects I think of. First, it has to do with the concept of trauma itself. As long as trauma is understood merely as an individual phenomenon, then attention doesn’t get paid to the potential social contributors to the problem: families’ and communities’ experiences of oppression, and organizational and social policy change goals. The second aspect has to do with extending how we understand trauma-informed care. The way trauma-informed care has been conceptualized to date, it offers a reactive approach to assisting individuals. While shelters are responding to individual needs of homeless youth, we also need to be attending more generally to family and community wellness, to help prevent our youth from facing high incidences of trauma and homelessness in their lives."
http://ncfy.acf.hhs.gov/the-beat/2012/07/mckenzie-mohr-trauma
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