Trauma-Informed Schools

The CA Endowment's newest addition to Health Happens Here!   Videographer Rita Grant has created an exceptional video on Trauma Informed Community Schools in City Heights.  The place-based outcomes (in the home, in the school, in the...

After a double homicide took his grandson's life last summer, Ricky McCoy Sr. started knocking on doors. He intended to get his neighbors, who retreated inward after hearing more than 40 rounds fired, talking again. Along with the acute trauma of witnessing a fatal shooting, they were experiencing cumulative trauma built up from years of struggling to get by and watching loved ones go to jail or get deported. McCoy and a group of 44th Street residents, whom we started following in November ,...