Finding Relief in Action: The Intersection of Youth-Led Community Organizing and Mental Health in Brooklyn, New York City

Ortega‐Williams, Anna; Wernick, Laura J.; DeBower, Jenny; Brathwaite, Brittany

doi:10.1177/0044118x18758542

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“…Black and Brown activists also called for the redistribution of funds from the NYPD to mental health programs, education, and programs to support the homeless. Creating pathways for Black and Brown Communities also acted as relief as they organized for a better future (Ortega-Williams et al, 2020). Black and Brown Communities were able to engage in larger demonstrations that were aimed at larger systems of oppression.…”

Section: Community Organizers and Social Workers As First Respondersmentioning

confidence: 99%

More than one pandemic: how New York City community members fight against coronavirus and systematic oppression

Rodriguez¹

2020

Social Work Education

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Social workers and community organizers were amongst the first to respond to Black and Brown communities during the emergence COVID-19. The quick and strategic actions taken by Social workers and community organizers have helped to close the gap for marginalized Black and Brown communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grassroots online fundraising, referrals to legal services specializing in tenant's rights, information on nearby food banks, jail support, mutual aid during social demonstrations, and invitations to social demonstrations targeted at dismantling systems of racism allowed for communities to survive. These quick and strategic actions present at least three implications for enhancing social work education. This article uses what the author has observed and experienced to summarize how social workers and community organizers were among the first to outreach to Black and Brown communities, and how they strategized and acted in ways to keep Black and Brown communities safe and economically stable while utilizing and creating new pathways to engage communities in the movement for social justice. This article concludes with a call to action in interrupting systems of racism by using skills and tools the author has utilized in organizing to enhance social work education.

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Section: Community Organizers and Social Workers As First Respondersmentioning

confidence: 99%

More than one pandemic: how New York City community members fight against coronavirus and systematic oppression

Rodriguez¹

2020

Social Work Education

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“…Brave Heart (1998) used HT to better understand, and respond to, what she conceived of as the origin of mental and behavioral health disparities among her people. Historical traumas exist in non-indigenous racial and ethnic groups as well that have experienced pervasive historical, political, economic, and social oppression, such as racial subjugation and colonization (Lopez-Levers & Hyatt-Burkhart, 2012; Ortega-Williams, 2017; Williams-Washington & Mills, 2018). In the HT framework, historical trauma exists at the level of group identity and is passed on socially (DeGruy-Leary, 2005; Sotero, 2006).…”

Section: Historical Trauma and African American Well-beingmentioning

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The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans

Ortega‐Williams

Crutchfield

Hall

2019

Journal of Social Work

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Summary An evolution of thought and practice regarding the relationship of racism to well-being, healing, and trauma continues within social work and the helping professions. Additionally, empirical research on colorism as a key dimension of racism suggests that colorism negatively impacts the psychological and physical well-being of African Americans. However, few studies have examined well-being among African Americans in the context of historical trauma, through the lens of colorism. In this paper, the intersectionality of colorism and historical trauma is explored to inform culturally responsive social work education, practice, and research regarding African American well-being. It is the first step toward developing a colorist-historical trauma framework. The impact of colorism as a function of historical trauma response transmission among African Americans is presented. Findings Advances in culturally responsive practice in social work address the impact of social determinants of health, such as racism. However, the impact of colorism within systemic racism is often unacknowledged. The authors assert that social work practice must attune to the differentiated socioemotional, political, and economic needs that exist among African Americans due to the impact of colorism and historical trauma. An intersectional lens, such as the colorist-historical trauma framework, is essential for culturally responsive practice. Applications The colorist-historical trauma framework contributes to the professional social work discourse aimed at strengthening effective micro-, meso-, and macro-level practice with African Americans for well-being. Implications for social work practice, research, and education are presented.

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“…(the healing-centered question). Then, most importantly, the discussion shifts from analyzing and shaming "problematic" individuals to focusing on marginalizing systems and problematic cultural norms and values (Ortega-Williams et al 2018).…”

Section: Critical Dialoguementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Then, they develop and execute a project to develop individual, interpersonal, community, and social Critical Transformative Potential. The purpose of the HOW project's critical action project was to begin cultural and community organizing efforts to heal from and address the impact of historical oppression and trauma at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community levels that manifest in interpersonal violence and community harm (Ortega-Williams et al 2018). For purposes of the InTrePID Method, it is important to note that the HOW project's Community Forum could be categorized as a critical action project.…”

Section: Critical Action Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healing Lives in Community: The Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method

Jemal¹

2021

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This conceptual paper introduces the Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method. InTrePID is a method that social problem solvers can use to develop interventions (practices, programs, policies, culture) that translate the critical transformative potential development framework into concrete practice steps: (1) dialogue, (2) critical participatory action research initiatives, (3) skill building, and (4) critical action project implementation. The purpose of the InTrePID method is to develop each prong of the Critical Transformative Potential Development Framework: consciousness (awareness), accountability/responsibility, efficacy (ability), and action. The framework is theorized to bridge the gap between critical consciousness and critical action needed to transform and address dehumanizing realities that harm the self, relationships, and the community. In essence, InTrePID should generate a cyclical process for participants to increase awareness of individual and systemic factors that perpetuate interpersonal and community violence; take responsibility for (in)actions that perpetuate dehumanization and accountability for implementing solutions; develop efficacy in individual and collective community/cultural organizing skills; and, practice solution-oriented multi-level action. The paper highlights the work of a community-based project as an example of one way to implement the method to support community members in healing from the harm of dehumanization by addressing the violence of living in a dehumanizing society.

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Finding Relief in Action: The Intersection of Youth-Led Community Organizing and Mental Health in Brooklyn, New York City

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 publications

More than one pandemic: how New York City community members fight against coronavirus and systematic oppression

More than one pandemic: how New York City community members fight against coronavirus and systematic oppression

The colorist-historical trauma framework: Implications for culturally responsive practice with African Americans

Healing Lives in Community: The Integrated Transformative Potential Intervention Development (InTrePID) Method

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