Community Healing Policy Agenda is a comprehensive set of polices that recognize the intersection of policy areas and the historical collective traumas that Black and Latinx communities face. It looks beyond treating the symptoms of collective trauma alone, and instead seeks to build long-term strength, vitality, and wholeness for communities unaccustomed to such privilege.
Community Healing Policy Agenda Essay Series in Urban Matters
Communitywide Trauma Demands Holistic Healing for Black and Latinx New Yorkers
To Improve Public Health, Make Housing a Human Right
Healing Embedded Trauma: What City Leaders Should and Can Do
Reclaiming 'Missing' Children: They Don't Fail - the System Fails Them
The Need to ‘Decolonize’ Parenting:
A Q&A On Family Healing
Four Steps to an NYC Healing Revolution
Toward a Community Healing Agenda for the Next Mayor and City Council
The 2021 citywide elections ushered in a new mayor and new City Council, while the Black and Latinx communities that bore the brunt of the pandemic over the past 20 months are also fighting to heal from intergenerational trauma. Traditional policymaking is often siloed but the incoming city government has an opportunity to consider a policy agenda that prioritizes community healing, recognizes historical trauma, and operates within the intersections of multiple policy areas. How can the next mayor and City Council address past harm and present inequality? What policy decisions can support healing for Black and Latinx communities, and what is needed to set a new path for greater community vitality? Join the inaugural policy discussion from The New Hood on a community healing policy agenda for the next mayor and City Council.