Change Matrix empowers partners by building capacity and offering expertise in leadership, evaluation, and learning. We collaborate to manage systemic change, aiming for justice. Discover how we help communities achieve sustainable transformation at an upcoming event.
This session’s essential question is: How might we challenge the deficit model permeating prevention and recovery to make space for culturally sustaining perspectives and practices in the field? Counter the impacts of vicarious trauma and burn out by creating a safe and responsive learning community for the YYA workforce to be heard and seen in…
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, trauma-informed counseling incorporates three key elements: Realizes trauma’s prevalence Recognizes how a traumatic event impacts a person involved with the system, organization, or program Responds by putting knowledge into practice Healing-centered care allows us to dig deeper. Join Youth and Young Adult co-leads Oriana Ides…
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), youth previously involved with the juvenile justice system had up to 23 times the firearm mortality rate of the general population. Black children accounted for 46 percent of gun deaths in 2021, even though they are only…
