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The Institute for Healing Justice and Equity was established to eliminate disparities in individual and community health and well-being caused by systemic oppression, through research, training, community engagement, and policy change.
The Institute is a multidisciplinary group of faculty utilizing academic research, community practice, academic and public sector writing, teaching within and outside of the academy, community activism, and policy development to curate, create, solidify, and disseminate frameworks and practices for healing justice and equity. They are committed to being honest that the academy does not have the answer, but that the research skills of the academy in collaboration with the indigenous knowledge of community can generate viable answers.
Operationalizing equity solely as policy change is insufficient. We assert that healing from systemic inequity must occur in tandem with policy change.
We define healing justice as practices, resources, and somatics that fosters healing from oppression.
We define equity as a state of being where race, gender, class, and other social identity categories can no longer predict life outcomes and outcomes for all groups are improved.
Your gift to the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity has the potential to transform SLU into the epicenter of equitable community building & knowledge curation related to healing from social injustice.
