In this webinar, Enterprise’s Meghan Venable-Thomas, Brandon Jones, and Chandra Christmas-Rouse will speak about their recently released paper: Building to Heal. They will discuss why a healing centered approach to community development is so essential and introduce the Healing-Centered Community Development Framework as a way to understand the concepts and practices at the heart of this approach.

Building to Heal: A Framework for Holistic Community Development is available in the Enterprise Resource Center. This framework focuses on a holistic understanding of health and the processes that relieve stress, achieve acceptance, promote hope and restore relationships. This includes relationships in the form of community-based interventions and how engagement takes place in that context. The healing-centered framework provides guidance on how to practice being in the right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the land for which we are stewards- especially regarding the development of brick and mortar. The pulse of this framework strives beyond merely racial justice and even anti-racist strategies in order to try on the notion of Black liberation within the field and practice of housing and community development.

The development of this framework was made possible thanks to the generosity of The Kresge Foundation.