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Coalition seeks innovation fund to expand nonclinical, community‑based trauma healing

Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Recovery (MA Legislature) · November 3, 2025
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Summary

A coalition of trauma‑healing practitioners asked the committee to advance H.2224, which would establish an innovation fund to pilot nonclinical, community‑based trauma‑healing interventions and lower barriers to access.

Members of the Massachusetts Trauma Healing Coalition and representatives from the Brookline Center described H.2224 as a vehicle to fund low‑barrier, nonclinical interventions that expand healing outside of traditional clinical settings. Speakers argued that relying almost exclusively on clinical services blocks care for many people; they said roughly 70% of Massachusetts…

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