“Healing Communities to Heal the World” Provides Tools to Respond and Rebuild in the Wake of Community Traumas
SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (October 10, 2025) — Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Center for Justice Reform is relaunching its online series to help communities that have experienced traumatic incidents move forward and heal. “Healing Communities to Heal the World” resumes on October 29, 2025, and will continue through the spring of 2026.
The upcoming session is titled, “Compassionate, Community-Centered Responses to the Drug Crisis.” Register in advance by clicking here.
Many communities are hurting. Restorative practices can help to address a range of community traumas, including human-made crises, natural disasters, and impacts of structural poverty and discrimination. How can restorative practices help facilitate healing of hurting communities and lead us to a healthier future? This online series explores a different topic during each installment. Past segments discussed best practices for healing after environmental disasters and health crises.
“Our speakers earlier this year helped us to consider the complexity of moving forward as a community when bad things happen. We learned from a doctor working in New York hospitals at the height of the pandemic, and from an activist who has spent years addressing environmental harms done to her community from mining,” said Dr. Quixada Moore-Vissing, director of the Center for Justice Reform at VLGS. “This fall, we want to continue exploring how hurt communities can heal by looking at two critically important issues — how communities heal after high incidences of drug overdoses, and how communities heal after economic downturns.”
Following the Oct. 29 webinar, the next session will be held on Dec. 4. Additional details will be announced soon.
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