TY - JOUR
T1 - Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Services
T2 - A Multilevel Perspective from Practitioners Serving Latinx Children and Families
AU - Meléndez Guevara, Ana Maria
AU - Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah
AU - Elam, Kit
AU - Hilley, Chanler
AU - Mcintire, Cami
AU - Morris, Kamryn
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Arizona ACE Consortium for their leadership in the field and their community providers for sharing their experiences and expertise. We would like to recognize and thank the research assistants at the Positive Environment for Adolescents and Children (PEAC) Lab at Arizona State University, specifically Tristyn Rivas, Sofia Chen and Catherine Marken who helped and were involved in this project. Instrumental to the success of this manuscript, we also would like to acknowledge the T. Denny Sanford School’s Latino Resilience Enterprise (LRE) at Arizona State University for their funding contribution to the first author.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Using a multilevel ecological framework, we take a qualitative approach to examining important cultural considerations that support successful implementation of trauma-informed services within the Latinx community. We conducted key informant interviews with community practitioners recruited primarily in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. Themes that emerged from interviews captured societal, community, and individual barriers to effective implementation of a culturally responsive trauma-informed approach. Specifically, multilevel barriers included socioeconomic circumstances, normalization of trauma exposure, and the transgenerational impact of trauma. Practitioners also reported approaching their work using relationship-focused and family-centered frameworks as facilitators to service engagement. We highlight the critical need for a culturally responsive trauma-informed approach that stresses the importance of context, recognizes transgenerational vulnerabilities, and promotes equity and the utilization of cultural humility in order to lessen the multilayered disparities in service accessibility experienced by minoritized communities.
AB - Using a multilevel ecological framework, we take a qualitative approach to examining important cultural considerations that support successful implementation of trauma-informed services within the Latinx community. We conducted key informant interviews with community practitioners recruited primarily in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. Themes that emerged from interviews captured societal, community, and individual barriers to effective implementation of a culturally responsive trauma-informed approach. Specifically, multilevel barriers included socioeconomic circumstances, normalization of trauma exposure, and the transgenerational impact of trauma. Practitioners also reported approaching their work using relationship-focused and family-centered frameworks as facilitators to service engagement. We highlight the critical need for a culturally responsive trauma-informed approach that stresses the importance of context, recognizes transgenerational vulnerabilities, and promotes equity and the utilization of cultural humility in order to lessen the multilayered disparities in service accessibility experienced by minoritized communities.
KW - Context
KW - Cultural responsiveness
KW - Equity
KW - Latinx families
KW - Trauma-informed approach
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U2 - 10.1007/s10597-020-00651-2
DO - 10.1007/s10597-020-00651-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 32504151
AN - SCOPUS:85086109149
SN - 0010-3853
VL - 57
SP - 325
EP - 339
JO - Community Mental Health Journal
JF - Community Mental Health Journal
IS - 2
ER -