March 6, 2024
1:15 pm / 2:00 pm
Venue
**Online**
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Organizer
The Annie E. Casey Foundation will host a webinar, A New Way to Measure Healing from Community Violence, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET on March 6, 2024. The session will highlight a new scale to measure healing in people who have been harmed by community violence, expanding ways to better understand and respond to young adult survivors of trauma.
Attendees will learn how this innovative tool and companion discussion guide can help survivor-serving organizations better understand the mechanisms that promote healing from violence, and why this is so important.
The webinar is part of the Foundation’s Leading With Evidence series, promoting effective and equitable evidence-based approaches in a variety of settings.
WHY THIS NEW SCALE IS IMPORTANT
In the field of traumatic violence recovery, though there are abundant measures to assess symptoms and coping, a review of literature indicated no clear definition of healing from community violence from the perspectives of those most affected.
Through the work of the webinar’s panelists and foundation partners — some of whom have been harmed by violence — a definition emerged: Healing from community violence means getting to the core of the harm and reclaiming possibilities. As part of the new scale, participants answer a series of questions that also catalyze discussion.
In addition to the healing scale, there is a new companion discussion guide for participants in a healing- or survivor-centered program.
Date and time: 1–2 p.m. ET, March 6, 2024
Panelists:
- Cynthia Weaver (moderator) is a senior associate with the Casey Foundation’s Evidence-Based Practice Group.
- Danielle Sered, founder and executive director of Common Justice, is the author of the 2019 book Until We Reckon.
- Richard D. Smith, cofounder of Alignmeant Global LLC, is a healing strategist and trauma expert dedicated to empowering people of color and marginalized communities.
- Anna Ortega-Williams, assistant professor of social work with City University of New York’s Hunter College School of Social Work, is a scholar, practitioner and researcher focused on healing historical trauma, promoting post-traumatic growth and youth development.
REGISTER FOR A NEW WAY TO MEASURE HEALING FROM COMMUNITY VIOLENCE