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The Broken Crayons..Still Color Project

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The Broken Crayons…Still Color Project (BCSCP) is a prevention program, which aims to limit and reduce depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and substance abuse. The program is designed to assist African-American women ages 18 and older to become more knowledgeable about mental illness, reduce stigma, understand what constitutes good mental health, root causes of mental illness, and strategies for the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It addresses the Phase 1 priority population strategy: providing insight into mental health topics among African-American women in selected faith-based churches.

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 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.