we stand for racial justice
Aware of the harmful impacts of oppression based on race, we are committed to decolonial and anti-racist work, to asking what we can do to dismantle systems of oppression, and to taking action.
We believe that benefiting from a racist culture is inseparable from being racist. We are either actively working to dismantle racism, or we are perpetuating it.
This requires ongoing work as “cultural competency"can never be truly achieved. Instead, we must practice being culturally humble in each moment by looking within ourselves to find, untangle, and transform our own biases — and then we must act. And we must act now.
As clinicians, educators, parents, and youth service providers, this practice means looking at our interventions, relational patterns, our curriculum, our classroom and school policies, and seeking to intentionally disrupt white supremacy culture.
Ibram X Kendi tells us:
"To be antiracist is a radical choice in the face of history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness."
We are commited to looking deeply at ourselves, our organizational policies, and to the ongoing work of racial justice. We hope you will make this commitment with us.