
This is the second session for Healing School Communities: Shifting the Dominant Paradigm to Center Student Wellness, a Community of Practice intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the ongoing impact of racial violence in all forms on student mental health. This session explores the limitations of schooling as a way to imagine health-centered frameworks of education. This Community of Practice session also offers opportunities for participants to:
- Name and examine the organizational structures that lead to Racial Violence within School Communities.
- Explore the various mental health implications of racial violence on school ecosystems.
- Identify and elevate community strengths, wisdom and voice as effective strategies for healing and place them at the center in supporting mental health.
- Become familiar with resources and tools to address the detrimental effects of racial violence in schools, that further build protective factors, power and agency.
Download the slides for this presentation here.
NOTE: This session is part of a Community of Practice running from February 8, 2022 to March 22, 2022. For more information about the other sessions in this Community of Practice, please click here.
MHTTC Resources
- Central East MHTTC - Reimagining Wellness: Preventing Suicide Among Black Boys
- Central East MHTTC - Saving Young Black Lives: Reversing Suicide Trends
- Racial Equity and Cultural Diversity Resource Collection
- Responding to COVID-19 - Mental Health Disparities
- Responding to COVID-19 - School Mental Health
Additional Resources
- Are We Ready for ‘School’ Abolition?: Thoughts and Practices of Radical Imaginary in Education
- H2O Productions
- Remembering an Apocalyptic Education: Revealing Life Beneath the Waves of Black Being
Speaker:
Tiffani Marie is the daughter of Sheryll Marie, granddaughter of Dorothy Wilson and Annette Williams, and the great-grandaughter of Artelia Green and Olivia Williams. She comes from a long line of Arkansas educators. She is passionate about learning with and from youth, sewing, music production, and connecting to the natural world.
Questions? Please email Ricardo Canelo at [email protected]