Culturally Responsive – Collective For Health Equity

Sisters Mentally Mobilized

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Sisters Mentally Mobilized (SMM) is a community defined practice and intervention of the California Black Women’s Health Project (CABWHP) that is designed to prevent and reduce mental illness severity in Black women. Sisters Mentally Mobilized incorporates the foundational advocacy and empowerment principles of CABWHP’s signature Advocate Training Program (ATP) while also building the ongoing capacity of Black women to address mental health conditions and barriers in their lives and communities. An additional component of Sisters Mentally Mobilized is the formation of mental-health focused “Sister Circles” that will be mobilized to employ culturally responsive community defined interventions that address mental health issues in the following areas: 1) identification of risk factors and symptoms, 2) stigma awareness and reduction, 3) prevention of early onset and deterioration, and 4) increased awareness, solicitation and access of care. This comprehensive and combined approach is a culturally responsive prevention and early intervention (PEI) strategy to mitigate multiple risk factors and limitations in interventions that contribute to and exacerbate mental health disparities in Black women, their families and communities.

Experience Hope for Teens

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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

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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 Villiage Project

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he Village Project, Inc.’s Emanyatta Project is a prevention and early intervention program that is intended to prevent and/or reduce symptoms of clinical depression and anxiety in children from kindergarten to 4th grade. The project necessarily involves families of these children for the purposes of support in these efforts as well as to strengthen the resilience and internal strengths of the children. It is through this involvement that the Phase I priority of family psycho-education is achieved. An additional component to strengthen the internal resources of the children is the project’s focus on building pride in cultural and ethnic heritage as a means of achieving higher levels of academic achievement and self-esteem.

The Sweet Potato Program

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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.