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Liberated Wellness Center Grand Opening
Sep
9

Liberated Wellness Center Grand Opening

Join us for our GRAND OPENING party!

Liberated Wellness Center (LWC) aims to provide, facilitate, and support intentional, holistic, and thoughtful interventions that promote healing and well-being, particularly for Black and Brown individuals and other marginalized communities.

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August Community Responder Coalition General Body Meeting
Aug
24

August Community Responder Coalition General Body Meeting

Please join the Community Responders for Erie County Coalition at a general body meeting for organizations and community members interested in helping to inform and create a community responder program in Erie County. Community responders are first responders who respond to low-risk 911 calls related to mental health, drug use, and other health needs *INDEPENDENT* of the police. Come on out, grab some food, and lend your voice as we review what a pilot program could look like in Erie County! Dinner will be provided

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Community Responder Coalition: General Body Meeting
Jun
14

Community Responder Coalition: General Body Meeting

a general body meeting for organizations and community members interested in helping to inform and create a community responder program in Erie County. Community responders are first responders who respond to low-risk 911 calls related to mental health, drug use, and other health needs *INDEPENDENT* of the police.

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Honest Conversations: Talking Race & Racism in the Mental Health Community
Sep
29

Honest Conversations: Talking Race & Racism in the Mental Health Community

This event is intended to be and open and honest conversational space where mental health practitioners of all backgrounds can dive into a much needed dialogue about race and racism within the mental health community. We will utilize a restorative practice approach to constructing and holding the space and it will be informed and facilitated by Black, Brown and white bodied practitioners. 

Please note: In order to foster emotional and physical safety of all participants, this will be an in-person experience following all COVID regulations, including masks and distancing.

*Registration is limited and preference will be given to Black and Brown practitioners in order to ensure racial diversity and safety of all participants. 

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Loving Your Racist Family: A POC Community Discussion
Sep
29

Loving Your Racist Family: A POC Community Discussion

Join us for our continued BIPOC community conversation on ways to heal from ongoing racism within our family structures!

This space is intended to be shared space in which we may share experiences, resources, be seen, and collaboratively develop practices to center caring for our full selves as we continue living with and loving family members whom uphold racism and/or racist values.

**𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒓** This is a non-passing BIPOC 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 conversation. While we recognize the need for similar spaces for folx who may identify as passing or allies, we also respect that for many reasons these need to be separate spaces.

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Decolonizing Our Mental Health: A BIPOC Community Discussion of Mental Health & Trauma
Aug
13

Decolonizing Our Mental Health: A BIPOC Community Discussion of Mental Health & Trauma

Join us for a virtual BIPOC community discussion of the effects of mental health and trauma within our communities. Discussion to be facilitated by trauma therapists of color, Kenisha Velez-Lopez, LCSW and Nicolalita Rodriguez, LMSW,CHW. Youth in attendance must either be accompanied by an adult or have adult/caregiver complete registration form. Youth only forum to be announced at a later date.

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