Our Services
Our drive is to educate community-based organizations, educators (including school district leadership), and city/government agencies on the marginalization of Black communities (as it relates to mental health and education) in a way that challenges them to do the work and informs/guides the way they do the work changing narratives, shifting perspectives, and differentiating how resources are allocated.
Therapy and Counseling Services (Individual and Family)
Effective therapy starts with a trusting relationship in a safe space where you feel understood and accepted. By acknowledging and relieving ourselves of shame, guilt, and control we can begin to let go of what does not serve us. In this act, we can process through our hurt and allow it to create healing in place of tension. Through these services we find great honor in walking beside our clients to help them develop strategies for coping and positive change.
Practice specialties: Trauma, Anxiety/Stress, Depression, and Family Issues.
Instrumental Daily Living Skills Support
As a Skill Builder, a variety of services would be provided to clients in the form of: Personal budgeting, Health Care engagement to include psychiatric assistance at times, personal appointments setting, outpatient therapy, case management, developing healthy coping skills, safety planning, development of life-skills, independence empowerment, and education on personal hygiene.
Instrumental daily living skill-building services are designed to help an individual learn to navigate the community of which they’re part of, in partnership with other services providers at times. It is a structured approach to teaching and training individuals to adhere to medical directives, follow through with their daily personal tasks and goals, and build support systems for themselves. Skill-building services are not long-term solutions to serve deficits in functioning; it is instead a time-limited service that provides individuals with a personalized approach towards overall recovery and being a productive member of his or her community.
Wellness Workshops (mind & body work)
Mindfulness is a kind of energy that we generate when we bring our mind back to our body and get in touch with what is going on in the present moment. Mindful living is about gaining a better understanding of self; as well as, learning and implementing new ways to apply ancient wisdom to the challenges of modern life. Scientific evidence supports that adopting a mindfulness practice will provide a variety of benefits, including improving one’s emotional IQ. The goal of these services are to provide education and training for individuals and groups that engage in mindfulness practice and sustainable living in relation to social, cultural, economic, and ecological situations and problems.
You can practice mindfulness to:
Manage Stress
Improve self-compassion
Improve relationships
Enhance overall well-being
Decrease physical and psychological symptoms
Increase your ability to cope with difficult life transitions
Cope better with illness and chronic pain
Increase your enthusiasm for life
Our wellness workshops are designed to create a healthy dialogue about the educational, social, and emotional needs of individuals, children, families and communities.
Menu of Services
Mental Health Workshops
Mental Health Workshops are designed to create a healthy dialogue about the educational, social, and emotional needs of individuals, children, families, and communities.
Social-Emotional and Sensory Assessment and Support Program Development
Our programs are thoughtfully designed to address the systemic barriers that disproportionately impact children and families, hindering their success in school. These barriers are often exacerbated in environments that struggle to provide supportive and nurturing atmospheres. Understanding the profound impact of social-emotional and sensory integration on equity, our intentional 10-week intensive program leverages developmentally appropriate and therapeutic interventions. These interventions are specifically tailored to strengthen social relationships, facilitate personal and classroom adjustment, promote self-care, and manage chronic behaviors. By doing so, we aim to ensure that every child has a genuine opportunity to thrive in a holistic and inclusive setting, despite the inequities they face.
Gap Analysis
A gap analysis is a process in which an agency or school district can compare its current state to its future expectations or goals. The Gap Analysis Report summarizes the current state, the vision for the future state, and an analysis of distance. Please note this report does provide the strategies to close the gap, but offers recommendations.
Professional Development
Professional development sessions are utilized for improving yourself through learning and training to advance your career. Training sessions are offered by agencies/companies to further teach/model for their employees, opportunities to work on their own professional development independently.
Affirmation Workshops for Children and Youth
Affirmation workshops are designed to become mantras when they are repeated over and over to oneself, out loud or silently. When accompanied by imagining themselves as they are declaring, over time, these statements will become beliefs.
Equity Consciousness Sessions
This workshop series is designed to deepen an explicit understanding on an individual and interpersonal level of how racial inequities, trauma, and lack of community engagement impact Black people in order to incite change on a systemic level.
Cultural Humility Learning Communities
Cultural humility is a practice of self-reflection on how one's own background and the background of others, impact teaching, learning, research, creative activity, engagement, leadership, etc. Participants will learn how to define and understand concepts of culture, cultural awareness, cultural humility, and cultural competence.
Multi-tiered System of Support Site-Based Plans
Multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) is a framework that is intentionally designed to provide targeted and tiered interventions to children and families. Interventions are designed to support the social, emotional, behavioral, academic, and sensory needs of students at their school sites and within individual classrooms. Plans are designed to shift policies, practices, and procedures to create and sustain systemic change.
Social, Emotional, & Sensory Kits
Our individualized Social, Emotional, and Sensory Kits are intentionally designed to encourage exploration and recognition of emotions and social responses. Kits build emotional vocabulary, encourage emotional intelligence learn social skills, and give the opportunity to put skills into practice. Each kit contains tools to stimulate conversation, advocacy for feelings, communication, and sensory integration. Our SEL kits provide hands-on tools, activities, and sensory toys that will enhance your social-emotional learning and sensory integration. Great for classrooms, homes, or community usage.
Site Visit/Environmental Assessment
Environmental assessments conducted through site visits are designed to assess quality in early childcare settings, which consist of the various interactions in a classroom between educators, children, the classroom environment, parents, and support staff.