On June 9 and 10, 2023, Wanasah and the Black Health Alliance (BHA) convened Healing Together, a two-day symposium aimed at creating a model of trauma care for Black youth and their families and communities living in Regent Park, Toronto and in similar, under-served urban communities in Canada.

 

The symposium brought together the community’s youth and their families, along with frontline mental-health and substance-use health-service providers, community leaders and a diverse group of experts to reflect upon the key values, principles, and practices supporting such a model.