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February at RYSE: Rooted in Love
This month's blog features a poem and song performed by Creative Healing Arts Assistant and former RYSE Member Nyabingha Zianni. Plus, check out #BlackHistoryMonth2018 re-releases and celebration of other short films, music, and art by young black artists, photos from this year's Youth Leadership Institute, and more.
Staff of the Month: Jamileh Ebrahimi
"From its inception, RYSE was a collaborative effort and we are committed to working in-partnership with community partners to advance the needs and wants of young people, even when it's not easy."
"We are all here because we love this community and the young people who live here. We want to make sure that every young person feels that they are loved."
Trauma and Healing Learning Series, Session 5
In the 5th Session of RYSE’s Trauma and Healing Learning Series, we invite you to Revealing White Privilege and Healing Racial Trauma. Dr. Kenneth Hardy, internationally recognized clinician, author, and trainer is returning to share insights to work together to reveal and heal the psychological wounds of white privilege in order enliven justice, reconciliation, and liberation.This session is co-hosted by RYSE and The James Morehouse Project at El Cerrito High School.
January at RYSE: Beyond Knowing, Towards Demanding
Staff of the Month: Michelle Lin
"RYSE cares for members and staff in their varying experiences and relationships to trauma, and in their celebrations as well. I think to be wholly accepted in these ways is a gift. Since working here, I’ve learned a lot from staff and members on how true healing and self-kindness must be cores to our work, so that we can continue loving, and fighting."
RYSE Center on Ally Tap
Trauma and Healing Learning Series, Session 4
The school to prison pipeline is a palpable, powerful, and harmful convergence of structural policies, practices, and punishment of young people of color’s coping, survival, pain, and fortitude. This session will present the dynamics and effects of such convergence and hold space to discuss the implications and obligations to cultivate the policies, practices, and investments to repair the harms and enliven healing and just systems.