‘Turning Trauma Into Healing’ Library Employees Receive Special Training As Part Of City’s New Trauma Informed Task Force [baltimore.cbslocal.com]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 9/14/218:56 AM

By Annie Rose Ramos, CBS Baltimore, September 8, 2021

Over the summer, library employees received a specific kind of training as the newest members of Baltimore’s Trauma-Informed Task Force.

“Baltimore is a city that has experienced an enormous amount of pain,” said Zeke Cohen, Councilman District 1. Turning trauma into healing — the goal of the city’s new Trauma-Informed Task Force. “We are going to become a healing city,” Cohen added.

The task force was born out of the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act that passed in 2020.

“It’s a way of being. It’s not really a program. So we’re integrating this skill sets on how to interact with each other,” said William Kellibrew, Office of Youth and Trauma Services.

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