The Training Academy is a nine-week, 165-hour, trauma-informed, mutual learning environment for young adults with lived experience of violence to become Community Health Worker Peers and Certified Peer Specialists.
The Training Academy is a nine-week, 165-hour, trauma-informed, mutual learning environment for young adults with lived experience of violence to become Community Health Worker Peers and Certified Peer Specialists.
Sara F. Jacoby spent several years working as a trauma nurse in Philadelphia, where she became interested in how the lived environment and experiences of people influence their ability to recover.
When Nicole Kenney found out her project won $10,000 in the Well City Challenge, she was literally speechless.
We set out to find the next John Lewis, that leader who is going to guide us through the chaos of today's civil rights fight.
Behind the anger of a negative police encounter is often racial trauma. As a doctor, I've learned how important it is to heal that.
There is research showing that violence can spread, like any other contagion. It resembles public health issues in other ways, too.
John Rich, MPH ’90, told the audience at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Yerby Diversity Lecture in Public Health, held April 18, 2019 in Kresge G-3, that he chose to begin his talk with David’s story to bring a human face and voice to the gun violence statistics that would follow, and to demonstrate how trauma can become “imprinted under the skin.”
If you plan to hold a Philly community event in the upcoming months that is free, open to all, and promotes joy, then we can help:
