{"id":1075,"date":"2018-04-09T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cctsc.ca\/?page_id=1075"},"modified":"2018-05-08T10:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T14:35:16","slug":"facilitating-transformative-social-change-a-public-health-response-to-violence-in-communities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cctsc.ca\/?page_id=1075","title":{"rendered":"April 30, 2018 – Facilitating Transformative Social Change:\u00a0A public health response to violence in communities."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facilitating Transformative Social Change: A public health response to violence in communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.\u201d James Baldwin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest security we can have is created through healthy relationships.\u201d Arthur Lockhart<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Like the infectious diseases in our history, violence is better understood and more successfully treated as an epidemic.” Cure Violence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Meeting<\/strong>:\u00a0Facilitating Transformative Social Change:<\/strong>\u00a0A public health response to violence in communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Event Report – Facilitating Transformative Social Change: A public health response to community violence<\/a><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>: April 30th<\/p>\n

Panelists:<\/strong> Zya Browne, Elizabeth Correia, Dr. Alok Mukherjee, Chris Glover, Louis March<\/p>\n

Time<\/strong>: 10am -2pm<\/p>\n

Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:00am – Welcome – Arthur Lockhart<\/p>\n

10:10am – 11:30am – Panelists<\/p>\n

11:30am-12:00pm – Lunch Break (Please bring own lunch)<\/p>\n

12:00pm-1:30pm – Open Space<\/p>\n

1:30pm-2:00pm – Defining next steps<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: G Building Humber College Lakeshore Campus.<\/p>\n

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Questions<\/strong>: Please contact Arthur Lockhart at\u00a0arthur.lockhart@humber.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Theme statement of the meeting:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In essence the day is dedicated to engaging in meaningful actions aimed\u00a0at transforming the cycle of violence in communities-<\/em><\/p>\n

And in order to do this it can be instructive to explore violence not\u00a0exclusively through the lens of criminal justice but by way of exploring violence as the manifestation of trauma. And trauma is best approached as a relational matter of public health.<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Address poverty. Reverse the growing gap between rich and poor<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Understand what\u2019s happening. The mainstream narrative is about bad individuals, about guns and gangs. This feeds into a punitive police response. It does nothing to change the survival culture that feeds the cycle of violence. It doesn’t give young men an alternative to picking up a gun in order to get respect.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Empower people in the communities. Programs should be run by people from the communities and inside the prisons. Recruit them as mentors and as peace negotiators.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Address the trauma. Take a public health approach \u2013 treat the anger, aggression, fear, anxiety, depression and PTSD.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A wonderful book on trauma and transformative social change can be found at:<\/em><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.traumaandnonviolence.com\/chapter1.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

    According to the author Steve Wineman:<\/em><\/p>\n

    Understanding trauma can help us to articulate what is deeply wrong with the current society<\/em>.\u00a0 Personal suffering is the most basic reason for social change.\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Understanding trauma can help us to mobilize rage in the service of nonviolent social change<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    There is much less recognition that\u00a0oppression is generically traumatizing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Racism, patriarchy, homophobia, and economic brutality all routinely violate people’s integrity and repeatedly render people powerless in the face of overwhelming personal and institutional forces.\u00a0 The social experience of people of color, gay people, women, workers, poor people, children, and disabled people is saturated with abuse, humiliation, violence, and negation of personal worth.\u00a0 As Aurora\u00a0Levins\u00a0Morales argues, “abuse is the local eruption of systemic oppression, and oppression the accumulation of millions of small systematic abuses.”13<\/p>\n

    Trauma belies myths that people are immune to destructive social environments, that anyone can emerge unscathed and through hard work succeed, and conversely that those who don’t succeed are to blame for their own failures.\u00a0 The study of trauma can teach us that ours is a\u00a0sickening society\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 a society in which\u00a0toxic<\/em>\u00a0social conditions <\/em>create psychological and physical illness by routinely traumatizing people.\u00a0 It teaches that a society organized around domination is bankrupt not only because it spawns enormous material inequality, violence, and oppressive power relations, but also because it degrades the quality of individual lives on a massive scale through the mechanism of trauma.<\/p>\n

    So the question for all of us to engage is: How to create healthy relationships as a response to manifestations of violence in our society?<\/p>\n

    Look forward to hearing from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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