This event will be live webstreamed. Please visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2016/race-violence-public-policy-and-social-trauma-restoring-community-chicagos-urban-context on the day of the event for viewing access.

This lecture will explore the relationship of public policy to the impact of social trauma in communities of color in the urban context. It will discuss how oppressive social conditions and militarized and masculinized public institutions foster and may be responsible for racialized and gendered injuries in the public sphere. It will engage the concepts of ‘Spirit Injury’ and ‘Black Injury’ in contexts of rising social, public and official violence against poor, Black and Brown communities in the USA.

About the speaker:
Dr. Troy Harden, EdD, LCSW has over 25 years experience serving and consulting in social services and community settings. Dr. Harden currently serves as the director for Northeastern Illinois University’s Master of Social Work Program, where he is also an Associate Professor. Specializing in trauma and traditional and non-traditional interventions within community settings, he has worked as a clinician, administrator, educator, intellectual, activist and community practitioner in the USA and many other parts of the world. Dr. Harden has served as a consultant with a range of institutions such as the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention. He is currently a Co-Principal Investigator with DePaul University’s Multifaith Veterans Support Project, an initiative in the state of Illinois to build capacity in support of veteran communities and their families.