Dr. William Latimer speaks with Dr. Phil Leaf, Professor of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. He discusses the need to develop and sustain trauma-informed healing environments in our schools and workplaces that take into account the wide array of traumas that many youth and families face. Dr. Leaf also discusses his own journey that began in the Bronx and led him to faculty positions at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University made possible by the support of family and mentors during his college experience.