CLEARING PATHWAYS TO HEALING AND WELLNESS Fostering Healthy Communities by Addressing Family and Community Trauma (Los Angeles, CA)

VPC (Violence Prevention Coalition) is peace building!  We are envisioning peaceful homes and communities, and during this New Year, we are Clearing Pathways to Healing and Wellness for those who seek to understand the effects of trauma and violence and want to explore innovative ways of engaging communities about the reality of people’s experiences with violence.  Trauma is experienced both on an individual level, like an injury or bruise, and on a collective level, where trauma affects a system of people and is socially produced and maintained.  Addressing trauma requires acknowledging societal factors that allow trauma to persist and treating its root causes.

Our 2017 conference will focus on Fostering Healthy Communities by Addressing Family and Community Trauma by identifying and bringing forth solutions that improve the quality of care for individuals and their families.  We look forward to highlighting promising practices that help service providers build their capacity to serve families represented in social systems through education, expanding networks, engaged listening, facilitating dialogue, and encouraging solution-oriented conversation.

Our charge at this year’s conference is to become better listeners and better facilitators, and to encourage dialogue and conversations that ensure communities are heard.  We seek solutions that are culturally relevant and responsive to individuals, families, and the greater Los Angeles County.  We seek to unite people to work together to solve social problems and make the world a better place.

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