Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Racism threatens the mental and physical health of Black and Brown K-8 students and may lead to re-occurring harm without intervention. We developed ‘Actions Against Racism’ professional development trainings using a trauma-informed racial socialization lens to provide K-8 educators with proactive strategies to disrupt the negative psychosocial developmental outcomes associated with racism. This paper is a descriptive account of how we iteratively developed this intervention through four phases over the course of four years. The primary takeaway from this work is that developing and implementing interventions to disrupt racism and promote healing must take into account the implementation context, with consideration to balancing the urgency of supporting students amidst the necessity of taking time to build trust and authentic commitment to disrupting racism among staff.
Recommended Citation
Poole, Lindsay; Perry, Danika; Noor, Zumana; Graham, Kim; Barnes, Tia; Hatchimonji, Danielle; and Branch, Kira, "The Iterative Process of Developing a School-Based Intervention to Take Actions Against Racism" (2025). Department of Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 548.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/medfp/548
Creative Commons License
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Language
English
Comments
This article is the author's final published version in Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 196-221.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.70085/jtse.v4i3.330. Copyright © 2025, Appalachian State University, Center for Appalachian Studies. All rights reserved.