Understand Historical Trauma and Resilience:
Healing in Clinical and Community Contexts
Historical trauma is the cumulative emotional and psychological wounds that occur across generations following collective traumas such as colonization, slavery, forced migration, and genocide. These legacies do not remain in the past, instead they continue to shape families and communities today through epigenetic changes, relational modeling, and community narratives. This training provides a framework for understanding how systemic oppression, racism, and marginalization perpetuate stress and trauma responses, while also highlighting the culturally specific ways distress, resilience, and healing are expressed.
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Details
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025
Time: 9:00 -11:30 am (central time)
Sign in: 8:45 am
Location: Training Institute at Washburn Center for Children
1100 Glenwood Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405
Price: $25
Credits: 2.5 CEUs
*Approved by MN Board of Social Work || Pending approval by MN Board of
Behavioral Health and Therapy, MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy, MN Board of Psychology
Trainer
Christine Smith, MA
Directory of Equity and Inclusion at Washburn Center for Children
Christine Smith has been a leader in advancing equity strategies within organizations for more than fifteen years. She currently serves as the Director of Equity and Inclusion at Washburn Center for Children and is the founder of Creating More Sanctuary. Christine is a co-convener of Mill City Kids, an initiative focused on addressing systemic disparities and mitigating trauma experienced by African American and Indigenous families.
Her previous experience includes serving as a policy consultant and tribal liaison for the Minnesota Family Investment Program at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, as well as Health Equity and Tribal Grants Supervisor at the Minnesota Department of Health. In this role, she led a team to build organizational competencies that strengthened diversity, equity, inclusion, and trauma-informed practices across the agency.
Christine is recognized as an expert in healing the impacts of historical trauma and domestic violence. She is a certified Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) trainer and is trained in multiple facilitation modalities. A skilled public speaker, she regularly shares her expertise on equity, healing, and trauma-informed leadership.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Communication, a Master of Arts degree in Family Life Education, and recently completed certification in Holistic Health Science.
