Community In-Site
Community In-site is about the family well-being movement. Hosts Tecoria Jones and Elliott Hinkle bring their lived expertise with the child welfare system as well as their professional insights to each episode. We'll be talking to leaders, advocates, and community members who are working from the grassroots to the grasstops on strategies to invest in the well-being of families and communities in order to prevent child welfare involvement. The show will feature stories and lessons from community sites (featuring Thriving Families, Safer Children sites) that make the family well-being movement real and personal. Each episode will unpack a specific topic (e.g. racial equity or community partnerships) and what can be learned from the challenges and successes. The hosts hope to leave listeners with something they can take into their own work to help grow the movement in their community.
For more information about the family well-being movement and Thriving Families, Safer Children initiative you can visit, Thriving Families
Community In-Site
Healing Through Organizing: Activism as a Path to Family Wellbeing with Mashai Small
Valerie sits down with Mashai Small—a former army sergeant, a mother, and member of the African National Women’s Organization leadership team. She’s also an organizer, abolitionist, and one of the leaders of the Black Mother’s March happening in Washington, DC on May 11th.
Part of the family well-being movement is the abolitionist perspective, which holds that the path to justice requires dismantling the parts of systems that harm and oppress people. And that we have to invest in communities to liberate families.
Mashai shares her journey from being an impacted parent to an organizer and activist fighting for the rights of families. She discusses the personal and community-based motivations behind her activism, including the systemic issues of racial inequity. Mashai shares what it means to organize in this space, the significance of the upcoming Black Mothers March, and the fight to keep Black families together. Through her work, Mashai offers powerful lessons on how Black parents can advocate for themselves and their families while pushing for a more just and equitable child welfare system.
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Here are some additional resources Mashai would like to share with you.
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