In this discussion youth leaders explore the cause, effect and healing of trauma with their guest LJ Punch, MD, a Washington University in St. Louis trauma surgeon at Barnes Jewish Hospital. Emeara Burns, Steward Family Foundation Program Director at Saint Louis Story Stitchers and St. Louis youth in the StitchCast Studio program gain an understanding of the phases and steps of recovery to this sometimes distressing and sometimes devastating experience. Recorded live on April 24, 2020 in Zoom in St. Louis, Missouri.