Trauma Stewardship + Social Justice

Our organization is committed to participating in the work of protecting and uplifting communities and people victimized by structural oppression including black, brown and indigenous folks and folks everywhere on the gender and sexual identity spectrums. We recognize this commitment not only as an expression of social justice but as a matter of trauma stewardship as the rates of trauma are statistically higher in communities that have been systematically and intentionally disenfranchised. We also acknowledge that ,as an organization founded in a white institutional environment and by white people, the integrity of our commitments is predicated on our own self-examination and personal as well as group work right here at home. Some of the organizations that we are learning from include: https://blacklivesmatter.com/ and https://www.thetrevorproject.org/