Exploring Community-led Racial Healing Models to Deepen Partnerships between Community Development and Healthcare

Watch the recording of Build Healthy Places Network’s Network Commons, Exploring Community-led Racial Healing Models to Deepen Partnerships between Community Development and Healthcare

The live conversation, which aired on April 13, 2023, explored models for racial healing and reconciliation that are community-led and grounded in ancestral and traditional knowledge. Kevin Leacock, Program Manager at BHPN spoke with BIPOC-led Community Development Corporations that are leading this transformative work to interrogate the role healthcare institutions can play in reconciling past harms and discuss their approaches to repair the harm of racism by building relationships, trust and collective community power.

Featured Speakers included: 

Dr. Enjolie Lafaurie, Co-Executive Director of Operations and Development, Cihuapactli Collective

amaha sellassie, Co-Executive Director, Co-op Dayton/ T.R.I.B.E.

Dr. Icela Pelayo, Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Watch the Recording:

Resources mentioned during the webinar:

BHPN Publications:

Crosswalk on It’s Not Just About the Buildings: How Community Development Organizations are Promoting Residents’ Mental Health

Resources Shared by Speakers and Participants: 

Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation

The Cihuapactli Collective Story

CO-OP Dayton

Gem City Market

Gem City Market Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Gem City Market Main Video

TRIBE

Participatory Budgeting Project

This session was part of Community Innovations for Racial Equity’s National Learning and Action Community a project of BHPN supported by The Kresge Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.