Post-COVID Strategies to Achieve the Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health System We’ve Needed All Along

• By: Heidi Arthur, LMSW Catherine Guerrero, MPA Health Management Associates Lawrence Fowler The Emma L. Bowen Community Service Center Mark Sasvary, PhD, LCSW Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS)
• July 2nd, 2021
• mental health, racial disparities, Summer 2021 Issue, systemic racism, trauma, trauma-informed care
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For decades, systemic racism has disproportionately routed Black and Brown children who have unmet behavioral health needs to congregate care and residential programs, and adults with these needs, to jails and prisons (Bronson & Berzofsky, 2017; National Conference of State Legislatures, 2021)....