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HealingWorks began in 2014 with a focus on young men of color

and was launched to strengthen Common Justice’s own practice, accelerate practitioners’ learning across programs and regions, change our culture and its devaluation of the pain young men of color experience, and anchor and animate a field and movement dedicated to attending to the trauma young men of color suffer and survive. 

The network, which has grown since, includes people working in youth programs, alternative to incarceration and reentry programs, violence intervention programs, hospitals, schools, victim service agencies, and other settings where people address the trauma young men experience.