Race-Based Equity Services

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORTS SERIES

These spaces provide support for educators of color within the BIPOC community. The drop-in webinars address common challenges faced in professional settings such as microaggressions, invisibility, and dismissiveness, while also focusing on reclaiming racial identity and embracing creativity for healing. Participants engage in healing practices and receive strategies to overcome these challenges, promoting resilience and empowerment. Sessions are open to all educators who identify with the BIPOC community.

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORTS SERIES

Our Healing Spaces for People of Color are facilitated by our DCo-Founder Dr. Eleonora Cahill, in collaboration with co-facilitators from our pool of BIPOC staff and faculty. The intention of these spaces is for people of color to come together to create community care and support one another. These spaces include Racial Healing Circles, Racial Healing Coaching, and the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, and can be implemented independently or in combination with other trauma-informed service offerings.

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORTS SERIES

These spaces are designed for people of color to come together online, offering community support and fostering healing. Racial Healing Spaces focuses on addressing racialized trauma and the challenges of balancing community-based, social justice, and educational responsibilities. Participants engage in confidential discussions exploring racial identity's impact on their professional roles, understanding racism as trauma, and collective healing. The goal is to empower attendees to sustain race-based equity work in their school/ district communities and address challenges related to social justice. Sessions last one hour and are held via Zoom.

EDUCATOR OF COLOR SUPPORTS SERIES

These spaces aim to empower white allies to actively combat racism. Topics covered include understanding the history of whiteness and racism, learning skills to address racial microaggressions and verbal abuse, supporting individuals of color, and managing white racial stress in conversations and actions. Sessions last one hour and can be drop-in or closed group sessions with a limit of 10 participants.

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS SERIES

The curriculum for this two-part series employs circle work to prioritize healing from racial trauma, enhance resilience, and create spaces where Black, Indigenous, and people of color can authentically engage in storytelling, communal healing, and rediscover joy.

This series consists of two day-long retreat sessions (8:30am-4:00pm). These sessions integrate healing justice practices and techniques for addressing interpersonal, intrapersonal, and transgenerational trauma to promote holistic healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Participants will have opportunities for individual and collective healing through inquiry, reflection, body-based practices, group sharing, and storytelling.

Sessions occur ~4-6 weeks apart to allow time for personal reflection, processing, and completion of intersession assignments. This series is specifically designed for Administrators/School Leaders of Color.

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS SERIES

The Black Educator Wellness Cohort is a year-long, intensive, in-person program that specifically supports Black educators who experience racial stress and trauma daily, to increase their capacity to address and heal from this racial trauma, to support their social and emotional well-being, and to retrain educators of color to promote more equitable learning environments for youth.

This cohort is for educators who identify as Black, African American, or Descendants of Enslaved Peoples, and convenes monthly for workshops and healing circles and closes with a weekend retreat.

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS SERIES

Designed for educators of color in their 1st through 3rd, year, our New Educators of Color Reflective Consultation supports new educators to increase their self-awareness, cultivates opportunities to engage in collective learning about issues most challenging to new educators, and provides strategies to cope with the stressors that may manifest as an educator of color. Sessions meet monthly from September through May and may be offered virtually or in person.

INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES FOR EDUCATORS SERIES

This day-long retreat provides a trauma-informed, healing space for participants to explore and process their thoughts, feelings, and emotions related to their racial identity and racialized experiences that occur both in the course of their work as mental health providers and in their personal lives.

Participants engage in racial storytelling, trauma-informed yoga, art-based practices, community altar building, and meditation-based practices to promote connection and healing.

This retreat is for mental health professionals of color working in PreK-12 school communities.

LEADERSHIP CONSULTATION & SUPPORT SERIES

Trauma-informed, equity-centered reflective consultation aims to bolster the leadership skills of new Assistant Principals of color while supporting their professional growth. This consultative relationship serves as a learning journey, helping participants navigate the intense emotions and stresses inherent in assuming a new leadership role in education, especially as individuals of color. It focuses on enhancing self-awareness, a crucial skill for these leaders to sustain their work joyfully and effectively serve their school communities.

These sessions cater to Assistant Principals of Color in their first or second year of leadership.

LEADERSHIP CONSULTATION & SUPPORT SERIES

Executive Leadership consultation provides crucial support for individuals in leadership roles, including Administrators of Color. Consultants serve as both sounding boards and guides, aiding in synthesis, direction, and leadership development. This consultation directs attention to leadership qualities, helps clients identify barriers, and offers strategies to overcome them. Sessions cover planning, education, and motivation.

For Administrators of Color, individual consultation addresses the unique needs for nurturing and sustaining leadership in challenging roles. Resilient Futures' leadership consultation is grounded in a trauma-informed, equity-centered, anti-oppression framework, acknowledging how our identities and experiences shape our lives.

FAMILY AND CAREGIVER SUPPORT SERIES

The Racial Healing SFCR program helps participants develop health and resilience-building practices to strengthen relationships, foster positive coping skills, disrupt transgenerational trauma cycles, recognize racial trauma and its effects, and promote racial healing for themselves and their families.

Groups follow a semi-structured, manualized format and typically consist of 6-12 sessions lasting about 75 minutes each. Modules cover various topics including Sharing Untold Stories, Rest as Healing Practice, Grieving Racial Trauma, and Building Connections to Heal from Microaggressions.

The focus is on supporting participants as individuals first, and then as parents or caregivers if applicable.