The Community Healing Campaign began as a women-led movement battling the violence in the City of Philadelphia with a mission to ‘promote community healing through resident engagement.’ Mothers and daughters gathered to save their children from the senseless shootings.

Months of this hands-on approach revealed that our young people were suffering in ways unimaginable: many are generally unhappy, living in fear, with restricted movement, limited socialization, diminished athletic activity, misinformation about coronavirus transmission and not being able to properly grieve, vent or mourn their mass loss.