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SOCIAL JUSTICE IN HEALTH: COMMUNITY VIOLENCE AND TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE

January 11, 2020

The goals of this conference were:

1. To understand how violence and trauma manifest in Brooklyn communities in particular for people who are black and brown, low income/poor, LGBTQ+, femme, disabled, and/or immigrants.
2. To dissect the structural and systemic inequalities that generates community-based violence.
3. To identify ways healthcare can be a site of violence and to prioritize healthcare as a site of spiritual, emotional, and physical healing.
4. To challenge mass incarceration as a solution to violence and re-imagine justice as community-based and transformative