{"id":90,"date":"2017-04-25T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-hpucker\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:40:35","slug":"grassroots-organizing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-hpucker\/grassroots-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Call to Connection: Making Childhood Trauma Personal | Dr. Allison Jackson | TEDxRVA\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HG8H4n2j9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>In her TED Talk, Dr. Allison Jackson reminds of the importance of connecting to those dealing with trauma. Grassroots organizations offer a platform and a space for this silence breaking and connection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After some research, I realized that very few grassroots organizations deal directly with the issue of urban trauma in schools or even, more broadly, with the issue of urban trauma in general. Instead, <strong>I found organizations that address specific urban traumas.<\/strong> While the range of issues that we could call urban traumas is wide, I limited myself to the traumas that Woodbridge et al. considered in their study.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned community members founded most of these grassroots organizations, but a few are powered by youth (BAY-Peace and REEP) and a couple are coalitions (People\u2019s Justice for Community Control and Police Accountability and The North Brooklyn Coalition against Family Violence).<\/p>\n<p>Given the diverse focuses of these ten organizations, each comes with a unique set of challenges, strategies, approaches, demographics, and stories. Even so, I was able to discern some common threads. All of the organizations have an <strong>education component<\/strong>, although the populations that they target vary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some focus on educating decision-makers, policymakers, and companies, the people that hold the money and power.<\/strong> For instance, Collective Action for Safe Spaces educates decision-makers about sexual harassment and publicizes personal testimony in an effort to spur more research and policy change on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other organizations educate the victims of the trauma event.<\/strong> For example, VOCAL-NY\u2019s POWER Academy teaches victims of HIV\/AIDs about campaign strategy, coalition building, action planning, and other skills that allow them to participate in policymaking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other grassroots groups focus on educating community members.<\/strong> Sarah\u2019s Inn, for instance, annually educates over 3,000 middle and high school students on violence prevention in its Together Strong Project and certifies individuals to be volunteer advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at a few other similarities. Many of these organizations <strong>provide support<\/strong>, <strong>often via counseling or advocacy, to trauma victims.<\/strong> As an illustration, Hope For Miami operates Coordinated Care Centers which offer crisis support and counseling to children of inmates. Lastly, a few of the groups, namely BAY-Peace and People\u2019s Justice for Community Control and Police Justice, <strong>use art as a form of resistance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her TED Talk, Dr. Allison Jackson reminds of the importance of connecting to those dealing with trauma. Grassroots organizations offer a platform and a space for this silence breaking and connection. 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