Support for Communities
We are a coalition of Black empowering collaborators that are vetted as trusted community members and leaders. These collaborators include mental health professionals, clients, peers, and organizations that are trusted to do good culturally responsive outreach. We have a strong network; The Force includes public service agencies, business owners, educators, students, artists, and community advocates.
Facilitating safe and brave spaces is an important part of our vision. Those types of spaces are required to interact with persons with commonalities. People who look like us; feel relief in not having to do the extra work to be understood and heard. We hope to inspire hope in the possibility of change and that resources are accessible, removing some of toxic stress from daily living that is so significantly harming our families.
Civil Rights Infringements
● Voter education. Our communities are being disenfranchised from their voting rights.
● We have high rates of homelessness and need more engagement with homeless
community (two homeless persons thought to be sleeping were actually deceased)
● Inpatient substance abuse service partnership for TAY
● Discrimination with attaining ADA accommodations
● Criminal Justice issues - our excessive fear of policing and the difference in how likely we are to die in those interactions vs other persons of different ethnicities
● Educational inequities - rates of Black boys in special education, etc
● DSM does not address race based stress/trauma and our children are being misdiagnosed with ADHD and PTSD and all sorts of issues that limits and labels them because there is no clear criteria in the DSM to address racial trauma or racism when it is so prevalent in our experience.