The 2900 block of Webster Avenue in the Hill District doesn’t look like it’s suffering. Most of the properties are in decent shape, and day in and day out, it’s fairly quiet.
Rhonda Lockett, a lifelong resident except for a stint in Washington, D.C., said most of her neighbors go to church and many are educated and employed.
Yet 75 percent of the block — 36 households — have agreed to open their doors and their lives to community organizers, medical and behavioral health professionals and to each other for the opportunity to get relief from long-term emotional stress and trauma.
Led by the Rev. Paul Abernathy, director of FOCUS Pittsburgh, a social services agency in the Hill, Pittsburgh’s pilot effort in what is known as Trauma-Informed Community Development has few models nationally and all are too new to report long-term results.
[For more of this story, written by Diana Nelson, go to http://www.post-gazette.com/lo...stories/201607240027]
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