Akonadi Foundation
Akonadi Foundation’s mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society. It serves Oakland, California.
Experience Hope for Teens
Experience Hope for Teens is a school-based intervention that aims to prevent and reduce trauma-
related behavior problems for African American students by increasing their access to trauma-informed
services, increasing school capacity to respond in a non-punitive, healing-focused and restorative
manner to trauma-related behavior, and decreasing students’ trauma symptoms, such as Posttraumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, dissociation, internalizing, externalizing, and complicated
grief reactions. This Community Defined Evidence Program (CDEP) is designed to create culturally-
responsive places of healing in the African American community.
The Safe Passages Law and Social Justice Life Coaching Projec
The Safe Passages Law and Social Justice Life Coaching Project (LSJ Life Coaching Project) is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce exposure to chronic stress, including trauma from their experiences growing up in poverty, exposure to racism, being disenfranchised from the education system, and being subjected to the Juvenile Justice system, including incarceration, for African American adjudicated youth ages 16 to 21 by decreasing: mental illness or the severity of symptoms associated with trauma or mental illness, suicide, toxic stress on youth and their families, school failure or drop out, unemployment, incarcerations/ recidivism, homelessness, and increasing/improving: seamless coordination among programs and systems, exposure of community to the program and its resources, streamlined access to services, local infrastructure to support the reduction of mental health disparities, program enrollment, relationships with caring adults, healthy relationships, happiness, mental health, family stability, family strength, engagement in learning, academic outcomes, likelihood of high school graduation, enrollment in post-secondary educational and training
The Sweet Potato Program
The Sweet Potato program at the West Fresno Family Resource Center is a prevention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce school drop-out, gang involvement, and substance use initiation for African American youth ages 12-15 by decreasing internalized oppression, hopelessness, and low collective efficacy, while increasing engagement in collective economic activity, college intentions, mentoring, and leadership development. It is designed to address the Phase I African American strategic recommendations to focus PEI on community-based efforts specifically addressing African American culture and to address the co-occurrence of mental health conditions and socioeconomic challenges.
Positive Action
A school- and community-based evidence-based program that promotes positive behavior, social-emotional learning, and academic achievement
Communities That Care
An evidence-based prevention framework that helps communities identify priorities and implement programs to improve youth outcomes
Tribal Positive Youth Development
Positive Youth Development adapted for Tribal communities through the incorporation of cultural identity, traditions, language, and community connections.
Family Group Conferencing
A family-led decision-making process adapted from Māori traditions that empowers families and communities to develop solutions for child welfare and social service needs.
Moving from Crisis Toward Opportunity: Framing Social Media and Youth Mental Health
This playbook provides practical, research-based guidance for shifting the conversation about social media and adolescent mental health (for the purposes of this guide, adolescence refers to around age 10 to age 25). It draws on FrameWorks’ in-depth and ongoing framing research on how advocates, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers can move away from unproductive crisis narratives and instead use framing strategies that highlight opportunity, agency, and collective responsibility. It also offers specific guidance for speaking to parents in ways that avoid blame and shame and instead emphasize their expertise and partnership with practitioners.