Racial Trauma Healing & Therapy
Spende geschützt
Fight racism until hearts and minds change This is for my great, great grandmother who was enslaved. This is my part. This is our part. Moving forward in justice, peace, solidarity, and mental health support!
This is a picture of my children and I at a protest for #GeorgeFloyd and #BreonnaTaylor. We are all feeling it. Anxiety, depression, and pain in our bodies. Whether on the front lines protesting, viewing the acts of violence, or grieving human lives lost; the psychological aftermath of racial trauma is present. Racism is a public health concern and dividing our country. As a Family Therapist, Black Woman, and New Song Church Mental Health Ministry Leader, I am joining with other therapists to continue the Mental Health Pledge to serve individuals and families with quality and free mental health care during this time of increased stress under COVID-19 pandemic and fighting the virus of hatred- racism. We pledge to be the change and support the change. #MentalHealthPledge
This Juneteeth (June 19, 2020) through Minority Mental Health Month (July 30, 2020), we hope to raise $40,000 as a symbol of '40 Acres and a Mule' to help American families heal from racial trauma.
What will this campaign do?
Provide safe spaces and culturally responsive clinicians to help individuals and families process racial trauma. This will be done through telehealth therapeutic services to practice social distancing, group therapy, healing circles, online seminars/classes, and individual therapeutic intervention. We also help match the individual, child, or family with diverse therapeutic representatives as requested or needed.
We are based in South Florida and have therapeutic partners from West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. The funds raised here will pay them their counseling rate so families in need can see therapists for free. #MentalHealth #RacialTrauma #HopeHealers
$40,000 in donations divide by $125 per session (standard therapy fee) = 320 free therapy sessions in support
What is Racial Trauma?
In addition to the mental health symptoms of individuals who have encounters with law enforcement, those who witness these events directly or indirectly may also be impacted negatively. In an attempt to capture how racism and discrimination negatively impacts the physical and mental health of people of color, many scholars have coined the term “racial trauma” or race-based traumatic stress. Racial trauma may result from racial harassment, witnessing racial violence, or experiencing institutional racism (Bryant-Davis, & Ocampo, 2006; Comas-Díaz, 2016). The trauma may result in experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, feelings of humiliation, poor concentration, or irritability.
Effects of Racial Trauma on Communities of Color:
Decades of research have noted the impact of discrimination and racism on the psychological health of communities of color (e.g., Bryant-Davis & Ocampo, 2006; Carter & Forsyth, 2009; Comas-Díaz, 2016). According to a report on The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans, Dr. Walter Smith notes some of the following effects of racial trauma include increased psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships.
Can you help us help those who need to process worry, fear, and emotional pain? #BlackLivesThrive #MentalHealthPledge #HopeHealers
In solidarity- The Mental Health Pledge.
"Mercy and truth have met together (in the streets). Grim justice and peace have kissed! Truth rises from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven." - Psalms 85- 10-11
May God smile down on us.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/health/racism-public-health-issue-police-brutality-wellness-bn/index.html
https://psychologybenefits.org/2016/07/14/racial-trauma-police-shootings-on-african-americans/
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/link-between-experiences-racism-and-stress-and
https://www.joydegruy.com/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome
This is a picture of my children and I at a protest for #GeorgeFloyd and #BreonnaTaylor. We are all feeling it. Anxiety, depression, and pain in our bodies. Whether on the front lines protesting, viewing the acts of violence, or grieving human lives lost; the psychological aftermath of racial trauma is present. Racism is a public health concern and dividing our country. As a Family Therapist, Black Woman, and New Song Church Mental Health Ministry Leader, I am joining with other therapists to continue the Mental Health Pledge to serve individuals and families with quality and free mental health care during this time of increased stress under COVID-19 pandemic and fighting the virus of hatred- racism. We pledge to be the change and support the change. #MentalHealthPledge
This Juneteeth (June 19, 2020) through Minority Mental Health Month (July 30, 2020), we hope to raise $40,000 as a symbol of '40 Acres and a Mule' to help American families heal from racial trauma.
What will this campaign do?
Provide safe spaces and culturally responsive clinicians to help individuals and families process racial trauma. This will be done through telehealth therapeutic services to practice social distancing, group therapy, healing circles, online seminars/classes, and individual therapeutic intervention. We also help match the individual, child, or family with diverse therapeutic representatives as requested or needed.
We are based in South Florida and have therapeutic partners from West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. The funds raised here will pay them their counseling rate so families in need can see therapists for free. #MentalHealth #RacialTrauma #HopeHealers
$40,000 in donations divide by $125 per session (standard therapy fee) = 320 free therapy sessions in support
What is Racial Trauma?
In addition to the mental health symptoms of individuals who have encounters with law enforcement, those who witness these events directly or indirectly may also be impacted negatively. In an attempt to capture how racism and discrimination negatively impacts the physical and mental health of people of color, many scholars have coined the term “racial trauma” or race-based traumatic stress. Racial trauma may result from racial harassment, witnessing racial violence, or experiencing institutional racism (Bryant-Davis, & Ocampo, 2006; Comas-Díaz, 2016). The trauma may result in experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, feelings of humiliation, poor concentration, or irritability.
Effects of Racial Trauma on Communities of Color:
Decades of research have noted the impact of discrimination and racism on the psychological health of communities of color (e.g., Bryant-Davis & Ocampo, 2006; Carter & Forsyth, 2009; Comas-Díaz, 2016). According to a report on The Impact of Racial Trauma on African Americans, Dr. Walter Smith notes some of the following effects of racial trauma include increased psychological and physiological symptoms – Unresolved traumas increase chronic stress and decrease immune system functioning, shift brains to limbic system dominance, increase risks for depression and anxiety disorders, and disrupt child development and quality of emotional attachment in family and social relationships.
Can you help us help those who need to process worry, fear, and emotional pain? #BlackLivesThrive #MentalHealthPledge #HopeHealers
In solidarity- The Mental Health Pledge.
"Mercy and truth have met together (in the streets). Grim justice and peace have kissed! Truth rises from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven." - Psalms 85- 10-11
May God smile down on us.
Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/health/racism-public-health-issue-police-brutality-wellness-bn/index.html
https://psychologybenefits.org/2016/07/14/racial-trauma-police-shootings-on-african-americans/
https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/blog-posts/consumer/link-between-experiences-racism-and-stress-and
https://www.joydegruy.com/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome
Organisator und Spendenbegünstigter
Debbie Chukuneku Origho
Organisator
West Palm Beach, FL
Ronnie Perry Jr
Spendenbegünstigte