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COVID 19 - MENTAL HEALTH-SOCIAL JUSTICE - PREVENTION & WELLNESS TRAINING - TRAINING OF MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES- AMBASSADORS (3 YEAR DEMONSTRATION PROJECT)

EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES WITH SUSTAINABLE TOOL/RESOURCES ADDRESSING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAYERED SOCIO-ECONOMIC-POLITICAL CHALLENGES (RACISM/SYSTEMIC RACISM - THE HISTORICAL TRAUMA OF RACISM-SLAVERY-GENOCIDE e.c.t. (POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROM) CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, IMMIGRATION AND TRAUMA, ADDICTIONS, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, ECONOMIC EMPOWERING PROCESS, SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, THROUGH THE LENS OF THE BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIO-ENVIORNMENTAL FRAMEWORK

OUR PROGRAM WILL RECRUITE SOME 100 + COMMUNITY LEADERS-ACTIVISTS BETWEEN TEXAS AND CALIFORIA FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES & TO RECEIVE CREDENTIALCED TRAINING IN MENTAL HELATH AND ADDICTION STUDIES -

THIS TRAINING WILL HAVE MULTIPLE OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS BOTH FOR THE COMMUNITY LEADERS AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY RESIDE IN - AND OR SERVE BASED ON THEIR OUTREACH BOTH GEOGRAPHICALLY AND THE RANGE OF THE SERVICES RENDERED. BECOMING CERTIFIED-CREDENTIALED-LICENSED SUBSTANCE ABUSE SPECIALISTS WILL ENABLE SUCH COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS BECOME ECONOMICALLY EMPOWERED AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPING THEIR OWN SOURCES OF INCOME THROUGH THEIR QUALIFIED SERVICES, WHILST AT THE SAME TIME EMPOWERING THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES WITH SERVICES AND MUCH NEEDED RESOURCES.

  • BECOME FIRST RESPONDERS TO THIER OWN COMMUNITY ISSUES

  • PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL, PERIPHERAL AND MUCH NEEDED DIRECT ASSISTANCE TO MUCH NEEDED MENTAL HEALTH-ADDICTION-SUBSTANCE ABUSE CARE, COUNSELING AND SUPPORT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. MAKE PROFESSIONAL REFERRALS, PROVIDE ONGOING PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES ACROSS THE SPECTRUM I.E. MENTAL HEALTH/SUBSTANCE ABUSE, FORM EMPOWERING COMMUNITY HUBS - ADDRESSING MULTIPLE COMMUNITY CHALLENGES I.E. RACE, RACISM, SYSTEMIC RACISM, CONNECTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURES, SUPPORT COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPING NEW COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, SERVICES, FOCUS ON LAND/HOUSERING, FOOD, WORK, SUSTAINABLEMPLOYMENT,