September 7, 2016 Far too many people across the country are left dead, injured, or traumatized by community violence. Communities can be safer when neuroscience, public health strategies, and collective advocacy are aligned in practice and policy. This event convened experts to discuss the best next steps to fostering a broad science-informed advocacy movement to effectively address community violence. Panelists - Michelle Bosquet Enlow, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School; Associate in Psychology, Boston Children's Hospital; Affiliated Faculty, Harvard University Center on the Developing Child - Shannon Cosgrove, MPH, Director of Health Policy, Cure Violence - Fatimah Loren Muhammad, Director, Trauma Advocacy Initiative, Equal Justice USA - Charles Homer, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services - Moderator: Robert Kinscherff, PhD, JD, Senior Fellow in Law and Neuroscience, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and Petrie-Flom Center; Associate Vice President for Community Engagement and Teaching Faculty in the Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program and for the Doctoral School Psychology Program, William James College; Faculty at the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior; and Senior Associate for the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Part of the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, a collaboration between the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Learn more on the website: http://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/battling-blood-in-the-streets.

1. Race, Trauma, and
Disrupting the Cycle of
Violence: From Local
Programs to Broad
Movement for Change
Fatimah Loren Muhammad
Director of Trauma Advocacy Initiative
Equal Justice USA

2. Our Work
EJUSA has been
working with
family members
of murder victims
for over 10 years
to shift the
narrative of what
survivors need in
the wake of
violence.

3. What is a Trauma-Informed Justice System?
Trauma can be used as
a frame of analysis to
highlight a broken justice
system for: families,
youth, victims, law
enforcement , etc.

4. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Service
Provider
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System

5. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Restorative Justice/Accountability
Service
Providers

6. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Restorative Justice/Accountability Healing and Support
Service
Providers

7. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Restorative Justice/Accountability
Trust, Safety, Procedural Justice
Healing and Support
Service
Providers

8. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Restorative Justice/Accountability
Acknowledgement
Trust, Safety, Procedural Justice
Healing and Support
Service
Providers

9. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Restorative Justice/Accountability
Acknowledgement
Trust, Safety, Procedural Justice
Healing and Support
Transformative
Systems
Change
Service
Providers

10. In the wake of harm, we attend to the following
Community
Those Who Harmed
Survivors / Victims /
Witnesses of Harm
History
The System
Training/W
ellness
Restorative Justice/Accountability
Acknowledgement
Trust, Safety, Procedural Justice
Healing and Support
Transformative
Systems
Change
Service
Providers

11. How do we get there?

12. MOVEMENT-BUILDING: 6 Key Elements
1.Information
and Data
2. Proof of
Concept

13. 3. Narrative Shifting

14. 4. Policy & Systems
Change Campaigns
5. Grassroots
Capacity Building

15. 6. National
Coordination

16. THANK YOU
FatimahM@ejusa.org