WELL-BEING CIRCLES

​Circles are peer-facilitated, peer support groups that offer the opportunity to heal personal and community trauma, to build skills, cohesive relationships, and an empowered community.  Participants are currently, actively developing and implementing strategies and solutions to the unique issues affecting community health.  

While providers willingly acknowledge the existence of systemic failures, historical and contemporary abuse, and neglect, reluctance to change has persisted through generations, setting the stage for the community’s poor health, shortened life expectancy, and now extreme vulnerability to Covid-19. 
Deeply rooted in transformative justice principles, our healing circles address African American health inequality and COVID-19 vulnerability through a community mental health lens, creating a nurturing, connected, hopeful, empowered community, capable of implementing progressive new strategies for community health and mental health. 

​Healing Circles are working to build an African American Integrated Health Care Facility focused on providing a welcoming, culturally responsive integrated health care to African Americans and the surrounding community.

​​As society evolves, mental health strategies must also evolve incorporating new science and lessons learned. Participation in online line Well Being Circles is a new,  and necessary change. foundational to achieving the healthy thriving community we desire. Circles raise awareness, inspiring and empowering the community to collectively address health and mental health challenges, such as lack of appropriate health and mental care, social isolation, police violence, and COVID-19. Together, we will deal with the uncertainty and anxiety of the times.  We are stronger together.

ONLINE SCHEDULE

African American Men’s Circle - Sunday 6:00 PM
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Men from the African diaspora join to discuss, develop and implement strategies and resolutions to the daily struggles we encounter as men.  Develop financial strategies. Improve relationships, parenting, health.  Heal historical divisions, light skinned against dark, men against women, parents against children.  Become a united, empowered, progressive, thriving community. 

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African American Women's Circle - Wednesday 3:00 PM
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Women from the African diaspora join to discuss, develop and implement strategies and resolutions to the daily struggles we encounter as women.  Develop financial strategies. Improve relationships, parenting, health.  Heal historical divisions, light skinned against dark, men against women, parents against children.  Become a united, empowered, progressive, thriving community.​

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Re-Entry Circle - TBD
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Merritt College, Community Mental Health Worker, peer-facilitated, reentry circle focuses on avoiding re-incarceration and developing a community support system for reentering citizens. Repair family relationships, heal the trauma incarceration causes individuals, family, and community. Required for participation in the Merritt College, Certified Community Mental Health Workers, community social services, career pathway program. Stipends, certification, and college credit available.​

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45 Days to a Healthy Transformation Circle - TBD
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DAILY support group.  (You don’t have to come daily. We are there to support, every day for 45 days).  Achieve your personal health goals. Replace old unwanted habits with healthier new ones. Appropriate for pre-diabetics, diabetics, and others interested in making health related dietary changes. Suitable for those developing a regular exercise program, those who want to quit smoking, or address other addictive behaviors for a  healthier lifestyle. 

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Trauma Training Healing Circle - Thursday 4:00pm
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Become “trauma informed.”  Learn evidence-based strategies to manage anxiety, stress and trauma related to the unique African American cultural experience. Learn to teach others these valuable skills and become the healthy, thriving, family, school, community, country we desire.​

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