a new way forward
OUR BLUEPRINT FOR RECOVERY
After listening to Affiliate leaders and young people, in the fall of 2009, we gathered a historic Braintrust of more than 60 physicians, psychologists, wellness experts, scholars, journalists, researchers, faith, educational and business leaders, artists and advocates in New York City to discuss what was needed to support and help heal our most isolated children and the adults who loved them.
Working in small teams for over a year, our 10-pillar blueprint for recovery emerged and became our 148-page guiding manual, A New Way Forward.
The wisdom offered by our Braintrust—for which our cherished friend Harry Belafonte served as the Elder—was used to create our mentor- and facilitator-training protocols, and the distinct curricula we created for each of our programs.
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Our guiding manual, A New Way Forward.
“Mr. B” speaking to our leaders at the home of Susan L. Taylor and Khephra Burns.
Poverty and its consequent crushing physical and mental health stressors can be alleviated–even ended. And we recalled that despite enduring unspeakable brutality, our foreparents built and rebuilt healthy, loving and prosperous communities.
At CARES, we are called to reclaim the wisdom of our elders and ancestors in rebuilding communities in which the well-being of our children lives at the very center.
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