There has been increasing attention towards the need for interventions to address and mitigate the role of trauma in individual and community wellbeing. The list of trauma-informed services and interventions seems to grow by the day. While these service developments are a welcome change from previous methods to improve community health and wellbeing, discussions with basebuilding community partners have uplifted community-centered healing practices that have helped our communities to endure and survive over time, and need to be (re)introduced. This webinar provides the context from the “Recognizing Healing-Centered Community Practices as a Complement to Trauma-Informed Interventions and Services” brief and frontline examples from our remarkable panelists. Join this webinar to discuss:
The difference between trauma-informed and healing-centered practice.
How to address trauma through community-centered healing.
The role that trusted partners can take in supporting community healing.
Speakers:
Judith Le Blanc, Director of @ Native Organizers Alliance (NOA)
Judith is a citizen of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma and director of the Native Organizers Alliance (NOA), a national Native training and organizing network. In the last 10 years, NOA has built relationships with tribes, traditional societies and grassroots community groups in Native communities and on reservations through Native community organizing training, strategic campaign planning and support.
At the core of our work is the belief that organizing a grassroots, ecosystem of Native leaders and organizers who share a common theory of change rooted in traditional values and sacred practices is the critical foundation to achieve tribal sovereignty and racial equity for all. We practice, as we say in Indian Country, being “a good relative.” Based on this principle, we pursue a spiritually directed organizing strategy rooted in total awareness of the environment, past, and future, and acting in harmony with all in the natural world and humanity, in the present.
Oyatunde Amakisi, Founder/Executive Director @ Detroit Women of Color
Oyatunde Amakisi, founder and executive director of the Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival and DWC, Inc., leads the project. She is a compassionate and enthusiastic community organizer and artist, with more than two decades of experience in cultural arts activism and social justice outreach. Ms. Amakisi studied Cultural Anthropology at Wayne State University and was in the James Madison College Honors Program at Michigan State University. She founded and directed multiple film festivals, utilizing film, workshops, and programs to advance the dialogue on social issues and to promote positive images of women and people of color in the media while providing useful resources and global networking opportunities for local filmmakers. In addition, she served as a core organizer of The United States Social Forum in Detroit in 2010 and led all cultural arts programming for the event, which attracted over 25,000 activists from all 50 states and 43 countries. As an intuitive creative thinker, political activist, and passionate defender of human rights, Ms. Amakisi works collaboratively with the community to find solutions on a local, national and international levels. She created DWC, Inc. to integrate film and social justice as a means of offering a new lens to highlight the beauty, strength, and truth of women, and utilizes Detroit Women of Color, Inc. as a beacon of social justice to seek creative and innovative solutions with communities through film.
Cost: FREE
This webinar was hosted and recorded on Wednesday, August 26, 2020. View the recording below.
Centering Community in Public Health Webinars: Praxis is in a unique position to build bridges between community organizers and traditional public health institutions. Below includes our 2020 webinars designed for local health departments, public health collaboratives and other agencies interested in increasing community-centered health equity and justice; we offer and provide additional webinars and trainings tailored to the needs of our partners upon request.