Classes Offered
We offer a welcoming space for individuals to rediscover their identity, reconnect with their community, and nurture their capacity for creativity and problem-solving. Through cultural education, affirmational support, and community engagement, we provide the tools to heal and rebuild a sense of belonging.
Life Navigation
We work with community members to produce the knowledge and insight that will alleviate their problems and prevent them from happening. We accomplish this by meeting with community members from all backgrounds and using a culturally-based process that helps surface individual knowledge and empowerment.
Prenatal Health Education
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Rethinking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Classes
Until 1961, affirmative action was traditionally reserved for those claiming familial rights, alumni status, or donating large amounts of money. An executive order by John F. Kennedy shifted that focus to actively include people that were colloquially referred to as “diverse”. The current day paradigm of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is the expanded result of that paradigm shift, yet the equitable inclusion of persons categorized as “diverse” remains a of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion remain more present than ever. It is time to rethink Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Birthing Team
The Birthing Team Model uses birthing teams, personal maps to wellness, elder coaching, healing circles and other culturally-specific practices to prevent infant mortality and preterm birth. In this model women are supported by a birth attendant who uses culturally-specific approaches to create healthy pregnancies, births, and postpartum experiences.
Rethinking Health & Social Service
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Rethinking Cultural Competency Classes
Any display of competence is proven in what is actually done. Therefore claiming cultural competency suggests direct experience of applying the cultural practices that create that culture to everyday life. Yet regardless of one’s experience of those cultural practices, few have or take the opportunity to examine the paradigm of thought that drive the ‘why’ those cultural practices. Cultural Competency has to be more than comparing and contrasting cultural norms. It is time to rethink Cultural Competency.
Rethinking Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture is how things get done within a professional environment. Intentionally standardizing inclusive policies and procedures that encourage employee wellness is great. However, there is often a difference between these well-intentioned policies and procedures and the lived experience of employees. This difference should be examined. It is time to rethink Organizational Culture.
INSIDE OF EVERY HUMAN BEING IS A SPARK. WE IGNITE THAT SPARK