Baywell Health Community’s Post

NEW RESEARCH STUDY 📚👩🏽💻 📖 As Black mothers raising our kids in predominantly White towns in the Northeast, we have experienced, first-hand, the challenges of finding supportive and justice-oriented educational environments for our Black children. Through informal conversations with other Black mothers, it became clear that there are larger patterns worth exploring about the racial justice advocacy & emotional work Black mothers do to ensure our children's socio-emotional & academic success, particularly within private, predominately White pre-K-6 schools. In our efforts to shed light on these patterns and offer suggestions for structural interventions, we would love to hear from you! - Dr. Kristie A. Ford and Dr. Jallicia Jolly

Encouraging Early Intervention for Alzheimer’s in the Black Community Through an Innovative Interdisciplinary Approach. To address that, several University of Pittsburgh researchers, including Kyaien Conner Kyaien Conner, Donald M. Henderson Professor, director of the Center on Race and Social Problems, and associate dean for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, from different departments are partnering with the Allegheny County Health Department and the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) in a new interdisciplinary effort. https://ow.ly/Wmap50UrUe7

Over the past 5 months, The Black Educator Advocates Network collaborated with Black educators, school and district leaders, and school psychologists to co create the Liberatory Black Educator Retention Framework. Broken into 5 tenets, this framework supports school and district leaders in their efforts to retain Black educators. https://lnkd.in/gr5Rf8UM #CABlackeducators #WENEEDBLACKEDUCATORS #Blackeducatorvoice #Blackeducators4ALL

Today, we commemorate the history of Black slaves freed in Texas by Union troops more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.   Juneteenth is celebrated as a marker of the end of slavery; however, we acknowledge that its oppressive legacy lives on. Racism embedded in our housing, criminal justice, education, employment, and other systems continues to have wide ranging impacts on Black Americans. Today Black households make up only 19% of our general population in Dallas and Collin counties yet represent a staggering 57% of our unhoused population because of these systemic inequities.   Today and every day, the ongoing fight for racial equity is front of mind for all of us at the All-Neighbors Coalition. As a system we have committed to being intentional and proactive in ensuring that we, ourselves, are not perpetuating these inequities. We've set a shared vision for advancing racial equity and must continue taking action to identify and carefully address these disparities. As we spend today celebrating the holiday, we also take this opportunity to reflect and renew our commitment to this work.

Redefining Black Culture: Building Independent Wealth and Power Discover the truth behind the black community's struggle for progress. Join Dr. Boyce as he explores the importance of building independent wealth and power, breaking free from dependency on the system. Learn from inspiring individuals like the IT consultant from Oakland who are making a real difference. #BlackEmpowerment #IndependentWealth #BuildingCommunity #ProgressNotDependency #QualityLeaders #RedefiningBlackCulture #BreakingTheCycle #FinancialIndependence #InspiringStories #MakingADifference

"There’s this perception that Black kids that make mistakes are not also our children. We’re not seeing the children in our community and city as ours or as the future. If we did, we’d be more intentional in how we speak about them, interact with them, and teach them.”⁠ ⁠ 🔵🟠🔵🟠⁠ ⁠ One of most recent additions to the LCCR team is our first ever Strategic Storyteller, Cierra Chenier. Within her role, Cierra will be leading LCCR’s efforts to combat the harmful narratives surrounding Black youth and work with LCCR’s policy team, the Youth Justice Advocates, and other community partners and allies to develop campaigns aimed at changing how the public views Black teens in our city. ⁠ ⁠ Despite the likelihood that Black youth in Louisiana are five times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts, they too are like any other kids who want to be safe, loved, and cared for by their community. When they make mistakes, as all teens do, they need to be afforded the opportunity and grace to learn from those mistakes in an age-appropriate ways that don't include incarceration. We look forward to seeing the fruits of Cierra's campaign work take shape in the new year and hope that you'll join us in rejecting narratives that not only sow seeds of fear of our children but also further criminalize them. Learn more about Cierra and the Strategic Storyteller role by clicking here: https://lnkd.in/gX4Dh9tx

Today, we commemorate Juneteenth, a day that symbolizes the end of slavery in the United States, when on June 19, 1865—when enslaved people in Galveston, TX finally received word of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. In honor of this important day in American history, we would like to highlight some information about #ALS in the Black community. Studies from VCU Health ALS Clinic (https://bit.ly/4c62Qwb) and Emory University School of Medicine (https://bit.ly/3VsyuNr) have shown that Black people typically experience longer delays to an ALS diagnosis, of nearly eight months. This means that these individuals will have reached a more advanced disease state and face delay to treatments and care. This delay in diagnosis suggests there may be socioeconomic barriers to access proper healthcare. ALS Network provides free, personalized services, regardless of insurance or immigration status. All people living with ALS and their families are provided access to a range of care services, such as ALS clinics and centers, equipment loan programs, caregiver support, connection programs and more. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gceuGPdR