The Center's research interests are focused on:
- understanding how to apply precepts of nonviolence to current public health approaches;
- deepening understanding of the impact of past trauma on future violence and future chronic disease in inner city victims of violence;
- evaluating the effectiveness of trauma-informed emergency department-based violence interventions, such as Healing Hurt People.
"Healing the Hurt: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Health of Boys and Young Men of Color"
To inform their Building Healthy Communities strategic plan,
The California Endowment engaged the Center for Nonviolence
& Social Justice to conduct research and develop a report on how trauma and adversity affect the health of Latino and African American boys and young men and how existing gaps can be narrowed through a trauma-informed approach. The report--entitled Healing the Hurt: Trauma-Informed Approaches to the Health of Boys and Young Men of Color--was released in June 2010.
Read more and access the report here.
Literature
"Improving Healthcare through Social Justice," John Rich, Drexel Reach, a Magazine of Drexel University Research, Spring 2009
Trauma and Young Boys & Men of Color:
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by John A. Rich, MD, MPH - now available from the John Hopkins University Press
"Pathways to Recurrent Trauma Among Young Black Men: Traumatic Stress, Substance Abuse, and the 'Code of the Street'," by John A. Rich, MD, MPH and Courtney M. Grey, BS.
Traumatic Experience and its Impact on Individuals, Organizations and Cultures:
Sanctuary Model® literature and works by Sandra Bloom