The Traumatic Impact of Policing on Youth Health & Wellbeing

In this session of our 2022 Racial Justice Training Series and Book Club, Prof. Kristin Henning and Mary Ann Scali were joined by Dr. Juan Del Toro, researcher in applied developmental psychology and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Dr. Tiffani J. Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis and board certified pediatric emergency medicine physician at the UC Davis Health Children’s Hospital; and Joe Houston, formerly incarcerated founder of We Fit DC, personal trainer, motivational speaker, and community activist.

This session was built around Chapter 9, Policing as Trauma of Prof. Henning’s book, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.