Welcome!
About the Project
This Public history project focused on stress and trauma of families experiencing generational incarceration. One Circle Health and Wellness offers services to educate, empower, and strengthen the social, emotional, and cultural well-being of individuals and families in urban communities. By focusing on addressing the stress and trauma of familial incarceration, we aim to empower BIPOC communities and residents in the preservation, creation, and curation of their community histories.
Understanding the relationship between trauma, stress, and the physical body is essential to optimal health, wellbeing, and happiness. In urban communities, Physical Trauma and Psychological prevalence are even higher due to many environmental and cultural factors. Unprocessed and unmanaged trauma can devastate our physical well-being, emotional health, relationships, ability to work, sense of safety, happiness, quality of life, and purpose. Unhealed Trauma can also lead to interpersonal and community violence.
Trauma happens on many levels, from the micro-level of home life, and family to the macro-level of abuse from systems and institutions, government, and historical legacies of oppression. The difference between Stress and Trauma is sometimes not clear when the body is going through these experiences. In a Trauma experience, the brain becomes stuck in a Stress Response, and the stress hormones regularly assault the body, increasing the potential for health problems.
We imagine workshops, presentations, and classes on stress and trauma for fostering sustainable community partnerships with stakeholders who support children and families experiencing stress and trauma from generational incarceration. We aim to provide community members access to health and wellness support. We also value preserving the lived experience and historical knowledge of generational trauma on children due to familial incarceration. Digital and creative resources will be used to critically examine the public history of generational trauma on children and families with incarcerated loved ones.
Monthly Workshops and Networking
When: 3rd Saturdays of every month
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: Old Oak Dojo, 14 Chestnut Place, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Project Directors’ Contact Information
Sam Williams, MCP
CELL : 617-276-5899
EMAIL : samwilliams@one-circle-health.com
WEB : www.one-circle-health.com
Patrice Collins, Ph.D.
EMAIL : p.collins@northeastern.edu
WEB : www.incarceratedfamilies.com
Our flyer is available to download below.