City Councilor Ayanna Pressley held a hearing last week aimed at establishing a coordinated and sustainable system for psychological trauma response in Boston.
The devastating effects of homicides, shootings, domestic abuse and other traumas last far past the incident and affect more than the immediate victims.
Currently various city agencies and community organizations offer services, but are not knitted together into a collaborative network, so many residents remain unaware of resources available to them.
“It is still not at a point where there is a standard protocol whereby I could provide you with a flowchart for, if someone has experienced or is exposed to trauma, this is who to call,” said Pressley. She said the city needs a unified protocol for service provision that will outlast the individuals currently doing trauma work.
[For more of this story, written by Jule Pattison-Gordon, go to http://baystatebanner.com/news...psychological-traum/]
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