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The Trauma-Conscious Equity Foundation

Your offering supports our endeavor to bring embodied, trauma-informed care to underserved communities.

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🌙❤️🔅 We envision a socially just, equitable world where all people have equal access to holistic, body-mind, trauma healing resources outside of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or economic status.

  • Our Mission: We fund training for mental health clinicians and helping professionals from underserved communities in body-mind, trauma-informed healing modalities, in order to increase access to holistic, trauma-informed care within underserved communities nationwide.
  • Our Vision and Aim: 

    A socially just, equitable world where all people have equal access to holistic, body-mind, trauma healing resources outside of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or economic status. Our goal is to fund, train and certify more than 500 mental health clinicians and helping professionals from underserved communities in The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method℠ in the next five years. In partnership with The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Institute we will continue to support many of these clinicians in their continuing body-mind education through mentorship and ongoing yoga, body-mind, or somatic training and certification. We hope to usher many of them into our 200 hour trauma-informed yoga teacher training coming in 2024.

    🌙❤️🔅Through these endeavors we aim to increase accessibility to embodied, trauma healing in underserved communities and bridge the health disparity gap between socially oppressed and socially privileged groups.

  • MORE ABOUT US: WHY WE’RE HERE AND THE GAP WE FILL

    People belonging to marginalized communities, specifically BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and those at the intersection of the two, experience disproportionate rates of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder* (PTSD). This includes but is not limited to, trauma that is a direct consequence of systemic violence perpetrated by oppressive systems, and historical and generational trauma. Concurrently, these same communities experience increased barriers to healthcare access and holistic, body-mind, trauma-informed care that is human-centered, compassionate, and/or evidence-based. Yet, integrative, holistic and somatic (promoting body-mind connection), trauma-informed healing modalities are of necessity in healing and recovering from these complex traumas, as is the support of safe, trustworthy, and effective mental health providers who can offer these modalities. 

    When BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folx do have access to such care, they report feeling most safe and able to engage when paired with mental health providers from their same community (i.e. same racial, or ethnic background, or sexual/gender orientation)*. This speaks to the need for more BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians who can offer these holistic, trauma-informed modes of treatment. Yet, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ mental health providers experience the same systemic barriers as do the clients they serve- for example, greater student loan debt than do their white counterparts*. These financial barriers oftentimes make access to continuing education (specifically more specialized: holistic, body-mind, and/or trauma-informed modalites) inaccessible. 

    Current research supports the necessity of somatic, bottom-up interventions, such as the Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method℠, to effectively resolve trauma*. The cognitive-based interventions still offered in most graduate degree programs do not effectively resolve trauma alone. Therefore, it is critical that BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ clinicians receive this training and bring it back to their communities.

    The Trauma-Conscious Equity Foundation was cultivated to serve this exact purpose.

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The Campaign FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions:

What we do? 

We fund trauma-informed yoga certification trainings for helping professionals from underserved communities.

 

Why?

So that these professionals can bring trauma-informed yoga as a therapeutic healing modality back to their underserved communities

 

Why is that important?

  • Underserved communities, i.e. communities of color and queer/trans communities, experience disproportionate levels of trauma and the physical/mental health issues that directly result from unresolved trauma (i.e. anxiety, depression, heart disease, high blood pressure). 
  • Yet, because of systemic barriers, these same underserved communities have less access to trauma-healing services, which serves as a secondary trauma
  • Modern-day neuroscience has proven the efficacy of trauma-informed yoga for trauma resolution. Talk therapy and/or cognitive behavioral therapies alone have been found ineffective in resolving trauma. 
  • It is widely accepted within modern-day healthcare that holistic modalities that integrate the body-mind, such as yoga, are of necessity when resolving trauma. 

 

Why should I care? 

One thing that the yoga practice emphasizes, and which we all understand on a soul level, is that we are all interconnected. When underserved populations get what they need to heal, the entire world experiences a positive impact. When privileged populations give back, they and the whole world experience a positive impact. In reality, none of us are free, until all of us are free. 

 

What will my donation do? 

It will fund one or multiple mental health clinicians or helping professionals of color to become certified in The Trauma-Conscious Yoga Method: a healing modality that integrates trauma informed yoga (through an anti-oppression lens) with somatic therapy practices. This professional when then go into their communities to offer this modality to underserved populations, promoting lasting trauma-healing within the community. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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