What is Project Thrive?
The mission of Project Thrive is to create a unified, comprehensive and culturally competent system of care that facilitates access and empowers young men and boys of color to step into their potential and greatness.
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Project Thrive is focused on addressing gaps in how the community identifies, supports and serves young men of color that have been harmed by violence. Over the next two years, Project Thrive will establish a coordinated countywide trauma-informed culturally relevant system to increase the well-being and quality of life for young Latino and African-American males, ages 16-24, and their families, that reside in the Watsonville, Santa Cruz City and Live Oak communities. The project will build community awareness of the impact of trauma and violence, enhance the capacity of county systems to implement evidence-based practices to meet survivor needs, and build local capacity to identify and reach this survivor group through outreach workers, law enforcement based mental health liaisons, and system navigators. This project is a direct result of the work put forward by the Youth Violence Prevention Network.
You can contact Sarah Emmert, Director of Community Impact at United Way of Santa Cruz County for more information.
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Culturally Responsive
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Implicit Bias
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The Culturally Responsive Organization Workshop was facilitated by Ann Curry Stevens, the founding director of The Center to Advance Racial Equity at Portland University, and Marie Elena Reyes, the Data and Evaluation Manager, at the Oregon Community Health Worker’s Association. Stevens and Reyes are the authors of the 2014 report titled Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations. They provided the training and the tools that participants learned to incorporate in their workplace in order to make it more equitable and culturally responsive.
Based on the same Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations, it requires knowledge and capacity at different levels of intervention: systematic, organizational, professional and individual. To fully practice cultural responsiveness, professionals need to have the knowledge and the respect for different ethic and ancestry background, religion, preferred language, and the needs of different diverse communities. |
The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding, a professor at of Women’s Studies Ethnic Studies at the Sacramento State University. Cameron-Wedding developed a curriculum that is used to train judges, public defenders, practitioners in child welfare, juvenile justice, law enforcement and education in jurisdictions all throughout the country. This workshop was an effort to move the project mission forward by providing representatives from specific sectors, including education, law enforcement, behavioral health, and probation, the opportunity to build capacity and deepen their understanding around implicit bias.
This event will allowed attendees: to identify the impacts that implicit bias has on decision-making within their organizations. It also was a design to develop action plans for how to counter implicit bias within their work, as it relates the outcomes for young men of color and their families. |
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Project Thrive Partners
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