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Incorporating Racial Equity into Trauma-Informed Care

Ashley Guido 8/8/232:52 PM

Takeaways:

Racism is trauma and should be treated as such in any comprehensive trauma-informed care framework.
Trauma-informed care requires a nuanced understanding of not only how trauma impacts the lives and care of patients, but the root causes behind that trauma.
This brief offers practical considerations to help health systems and provider practices incorporate a focus on racial equity to enhance trauma-informed care efforts. It draws from the experiences of two federally qualified health centers — the Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services in Philadelphia and Bread for the City in Washington, D.C.

To read more on Danica Richards' article, please click here.

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