The rise in urban violence, compounded by structural, institutional, and personal racism alongside the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, is uniquely traumatizing African American and Latino children, youth, and adolescents. To address this, DCF is collaborating with eight community organizations to establish Urban Trauma Collective Care Centers. These centers aim to provide targeted mental health interventions tailored to meet the specific needs of African American and Latino youth in urban settings, thereby bridging existing treatment gaps for this population.


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What exactly is Urban Trauma?

A deep-rooted psychological and genetic condition that is caused by racially motivated toxic stress in urban settings.

Urban trauma features six key characteristics:

1. Anger
2. ​Mistrust
3. ​Manipulation
4. ​Fear
5. ​Perceptual Error 
6. ​Rejection

These behaviors above may present in isolation, but when considered in combination, they manifest as urban trauma.  A few points about Urban Trauma:

• ​Urban trauma is NOT a label or condition.
  
• Urban trauma IS a framework to identify, reclaim, and heal from structural racism. 
  
• ​Emancipation from Urban Trauma WILL break cycles of oppression.
  
• ​Understanding Urban Trauma through the Urban Trauma® Informed Learning Program offers an essential tool for anyone helping those who seek to overcome generational and inherited trauma, marking an important step toward a path of healing.
  
• ​Drawing from historical events, inter-generational biology, and psychology, this program expertly illustrates that not only is urban trauma real but that by invalidating its existence, we deny communities of color the chance to heal and break the cycle.
• ​The ultimate goal is to move those who have experienced Urban Trauma from a state of merely surviving toward a future of thriving.
  

Urban Trauma is a deep rooted psychological and genetic condition that is cause by racially motivated toxic stress in urban settings.

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