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N.J. awards $20M to address trauma and violence in hospitals

Reimagining Justice This Month | February 2020 Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. To combat gun violence, N.J. awards $20M to hospitals for intervention programs New Jersey isn’t the first state to see how violence intervention can…

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Trauma-Informed Justice in Philadelphia | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Philadelphia Judges Move Slowly Toward Being Trauma-Informed, The Notebook Philadelphia’s Working to Restore Adolescents’ Power program brings trauma to the center of decision-making for youth who have been charged with a crime….

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Seeking “dignity-based” justice | Reimagining Justice This Month, November 2018

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Seeking Dignity-Based Justice, Institute for Family StudiesSo much of the violence in our society has its root in childhood trauma, and too often our responses to that violence only perpetuate the same…

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Reckoning with historical trauma | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. ‘They Was Killing Black People:’ In Tulsa, one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history still haunts the city with unresolved questions, even as ‘Black Wall Street’ gentrifies, The…

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From slavery to lynching, mass incarceration, & the death penalty | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum, The New Yorker Recently, EJUSA staff visited the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, to reflect upon history of and…

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Every time I turn on the news I see another mass shooting. Another police shooting. I see people of color and poor people railroaded into prisons. And I see survivors struggling in silence – neglected, forgotten. It’s devastating. We need real solutions that address violence head on. Violence by the justice system. Community violence. All…

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Ending the death penalty by elevating voices of color | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. “Justice from Within: The Death Penalty and a New Vision for Criminal Justice through a Racial Justice Lens,” Nonprofit Quarterly In a new article, EJUSA’s Fatimah Loren Muhammad highlights the history of racial…

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Let’s build a world where violence is rare | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Vice’s in-depth Charlottesville video is a horrifying look at hatred, The Boston Globe Our country watched white nationalists descend upon Charlottesville, VA, to deliver messages of hate and bigotry. Vice’s viral 20 minute…

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Community-driven, trauma-informed solutions to public safety | Reimagining Justice This Month

Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. Race, History, Policing: A New Vision of Public Safety Conference, National Network for Safe Communities This video features EJUSA’s Trauma Advocacy Program Director Fatimah Loren Muhammad on a panel talking about community-driven,…

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Funding available for groups serving underserved survivors in Michigan

Michigan has opened an application process for organizations to apply for funds (pdf) through the Federal Victims Of Crime Act (VOCA). If you are an organization in Michigan that works with underserved victims, you may be eligible to apply through this RFP process. The grant awards are between $50,000 and $1 million. The funding will focus on…

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