Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered:
Implementing the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act
In 2020, Baltimore signed the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act into law, making Baltimore the first major city to comprehensively legislate trauma-informed care.
Tonkonow’s graduate thesis “Action to Awareness: The Elijah Cummings Healing City Act” explores how human-centered design processes can support the implementation of the Act.
Lydia Tonkonow presents her work at the M.A. in Social Design Exchange on May 4th, 2021. (44:31)