This cycle of trauma and oppression calls for healing-centered solutions that have an impact on multiple generations simultaneously. Crucial to this recognition is understanding that different forms of systematic oppression, including discrimination and exploitative practices, are traumatic. Being trauma-informed includes preventing, recognizing, and responding to many types of trauma. Trauma impacts families and contributes to the transfer of poverty across generations. Healing-center, Two-generation Approaches
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Rather than pathologizing trauma, healing-centered approaches engage with trauma more holistically in identifying resilience in the face of trauma and working to hold space for justice by way of transformative healing practices that enhance well-being. Recently the Center for Hunger-Free Communities (the Center) has sought to follow the lead of those who have shifted away from trauma-centric language toward “healing-centered” language. Many health professionals and policy advocates have called for approaches that seek to address, remediate, and prevent individualized trauma.
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Both systemic racism and discrimination create conditions of economic insecurity that then exacerbate and foster a cycle of poor health and exposure to violence stemming from this systemic trauma. Racial discrimination consists of interpersonal and individual interventions with a person’s physical, emotional, economic, or social wellbeing because of biases against someone’s race, often in by way of access to public space, employment, housing, and healthcare. Systemic racism is a form of violence that places or keeps people of color in conditions of hunger and poverty through the structural withholding of resources and opportunities, hyper-surveillance, and unjust incarceration inflicted on racialized individuals and communities. Systemic racism and discrimination are forms of systemic oppression found to be root causes of poverty and hunger in the United States. Systemic Oppression and Trauma: Why Healing-centered, Two-generation Approaches are Crucial to Poverty Alleviation 2019