by Rosalyn Williams | May 21, 2018
The Thriving Communities Collaborative is excited to welcome back Naketta Lowery, CFLE of Sustainable Life Solutions and The Family Tree to lead us in exploring how we can collectively act to help break trauma’s grip on our communities. She will follow up on her...
by Rosalyn Williams | Apr 23, 2018
As a follow-up to our February and March events, we will be screening DNA is Not Destiny, one of the films from the Raising of America series produced by California Newsreel. This film will build upon and reinforce concepts raised at TCC’s March event,...
by Rosalyn Williams | Feb 2, 2018 | Healing, Policy, Racism, Resilience
This week, we had the opportunity to hear, the President give his State of the Union address where he painted a rosy picture of the US economy and the initiatives undertaken by the legislative and executive branches. We also had the opportunity to hear the opposition...
by Rosalyn Williams | Mar 27, 2017 | Racism
On March 17, 2017, the Thriving Communities Collaborative (TCC) jointly sponsored a meeting with the Black Mental Health Alliance on Racism and Trauma. It was one of the most well-attended events we have held in the past year which is positive. It shows that there is...
by Rosalyn Williams | Mar 17, 2017
How exactly does racism “get under our skin?” How does something like racism factor in when we look at health outcomes? When the original ACES study was done, racism wasn’t one of the adverse experiences identified as the population studied was only...
