TRAUMA

INFORMED

A framework that involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of all types of trauma while creating spaces for children/youth that are safe, sacred, creative. (Corbitt, Nix-Early & Blummer, n.d. &  The Trauma Informed Care Project, n.d.)

ethos

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• RESPECT / DIGNITY

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• ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LIGHT    & POWER WITHIN

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• CONNECTION AND BELONGING

• COMPASSION

building

community

Community is defined as a group of two or more people who, regardless of their backgrounds, have been able to accept and transcend to live in their complete humanity. Experiential in nature, Community Building is an adventure in human interaction based on anti-racist decolonizing principles and processes rather than an agenda or particular procedure. (Foundation for Community Engagement, 2015)

art

infusion

The use of the artistic 
process, the making and 
doing of art as a means of 
understanding experience. 
(Savin-Baden & Major, 
2013)

Anti-

racism

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information but rather problem posing education, breaking the vertical patterns characteristic of banking education, can fulfill its function of being the practice of freedom. (Paulo. 1972)

Human beings are happier, more 
productive, and more likely to 
make positive changes in their 
behavior when those in positions 
of authority do things with them. 
(Costello, Wachtel, and Wachetel, 
2009).