At the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Atlanta, collaborative partners Detroit Health Healing and Environmental Justice, Cure This, Generation 5, KINDRED Southern Healing Justice Collective, and practitioners/organizers across the country organize a Healing Justice Practice Space for organizers attending the USSF to build care and safety strategies that do not rely on the carceral state and that bridge the divides between different modalities of care. They also host the Healing, Health Justice & Liberation Peoples Movement Assembly of grassroots healers, medical practitioners, and health organizers coming together to build and strategize how to transform the role of healing in our movements and communities for collective liberation.
A working definition of Healing Justice is introduced to a national audience, which is defined as a framework to build collective care and safety strategies that will intervene on generational trauma to build collective power towards resistance. Goals of Healing Justice include building new models of care that will restore the earth and intervene in current emotional/spiritual/psychic and environmental conditions.