Justice-Involved Youth: Healing Through Trauma with Creativity and Community Regeneration + Peer-Support Workbook [Hardcover]

Chapter 1  Setting the Stage

Chapter 2  Social Justice: Shifting Powers

Chapter 3  Community Regeneration: Making the Connection

Chapter 4  Community as a Place to Begin

Chapter 5  The Projects 

Chapter 6  Collaborative Projects 

Postscript  Moving Forward 

Appendix A:  A Reflective Letter by Patrick (Pat) R.

Appendix B:  A Reflective Letter by Rafael Fuentes

Appendix C:  A Reflective Letter by Tye S.

PART II: Peer-Support Workbook: Words from the Inside-Out

Index

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration. The author discusses how a trauma-informed approach can heal marginalized and ignored citizens and refutes the notion that severe punishment for repeat offenders is essential or effective.

Author Carol Cross has decades of experience incorporating therapeutic expressive arts in her professional practice, with a focus on peer-led programs. She advocates a trauma-informed approach using a peer-driven creative process, showing how such programs can intervene in the cycle of violence and contribute to a practice of community preventive care for youth deemed to be at risk. The workbook is built on the research and resources Cross has used within care plans with clinical teams and youth forensics. The user is shown how to build on these teachings and implement or modify the content to suit individual needs. Contributions from persons ils—