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How to Understand that Determinants Don’t Have to Be Destiny:

A Trauma-Informed Understanding of the Social Determinants of Health Mission: Activating Communities to Heal

Our Mission is implemented with community by:

• Elevating community wisdom, centering those

who have experienced trauma as leaders of the work.

• Disrupting systemic oppression and responding

to the impact of historical trauma.

• Acting with urgency, not waiting for another

day or generation.

• Leading innovative solutions based on the

science of trauma, toxic stress and resiliency.

Understanding Trauma

Event – Actual experience or threat of physical or psychological harm

OR the lack/withholding/control of material or relational resources crucial to health and development. Can be a single event or repeated events.

Experience – How someone assigns meaning to the event, which

depends on the perception of the individual.

Effects – Results of the person’s experience of the event. This can

include neurological, physical, emotional, and cognitive effects.

+Working definition – SAMHSA, Trauma and Justice

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Source: Liverpool CAMHS

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Individual Trauma

Layers of Trauma

Community Trauma Historical Trauma Systemic Oppression

Poverty

Gender Inequity Violence

Racism

Lack of Access

Xeno- phobia

Changing the Question

To become alive and well, we need to change the question from… What’s wrong with you?

What happened to you?

to

The Core Principles

Moving from Universal Approaches to Targeted Universalism

Center community voice to understand each community’s unique trauma experience and support them in activating their own healing. Recognize universal approaches will not lead to equity and improved well- being for all. Trauma has uniquely impacted different populations of Americans, including Black Americans, Native Americans, Latinx Americans, LGBTQ Americans, New Americans, etc. Communities need resources and supports to heal from their unique trauma histories, as well as the historical trauma they have endured.

Achieving Equity Through Targeted Universalism

john a powell, Stephen Menendian, and Jason Reese

Targeting within universalism means to identify a problem, particularly one suffered by marginalized people, propose a solution, and then broaden its scope to cover as many people as possible. With equity as the outcome, TU supports the unique needs of the particular with scalability reminding us that we are all part of the same social and economic fabric.

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Contact Information

Ave Stokes & Sean Marz

Alive and Well Communities Ave: astokes@awcommunities.org Sean: smarz@awcommunities.org www.awcommunities.org

Rosetta Keeton Director of Patient Access

• St. Louis Regional Health Commission

rkeeton@stlrh.org www.stlrhc.org

www.awcommunities.org

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Questions?

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