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.
Grantseekers / Letter of Inquiry Process
Open LOI process for community-driven solutions that support children, families, and equitable communities.
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.
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
Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity
The Turning Resilience Into Brilliance for Eternity (TRIBE) Program is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent or intervene in the early onset of the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) for foster and adjudicated AA male youth. The CDEP does this by increasing resiliency through skills building, identity development, peer support and mentoring, opening the aperture to higher education, and widening the access to mental health services. Utilizing an ecological approach and brain-based learning, the TRIBE CDEP is designed to address Phase 1 priority population strategy of building on community strengths and demonstrably improving the quality of mental health services by providing services that are culturally congruent, sensitive and competent. The program outcome measures will be, decrease the risks for skid row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, anxiety, and reactivity. Additionally, the CDEP anticipates increases in adaptability, self-efficacy, and social connectivity.
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.