Dear Friends:
We are delighted to announce that Community Healing Network, Inc.(CHN) has entered into a collaboration with the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) to help make this the decade for the emotional emancipation of Black people.
ABPsi has endorsed the annual celebration of Community Healing Days, designed put "time for healing" on the Black agenda. ABPsi and its members will provide advice, counsel, research support, and hands-on assistance to help CHN build a nationwide grassroots network of self-help groups focused on emotional emancipation and healing for Black people. Members of ABPsi have responded enthusiastically to the idea of making this the decade for emotional emancipation, and many have signed on to serve on CHN Task Forces to launch local healing circles and help equip local leaders to establish ongoing healing initiatives.
This collaboration underscores the fact that the celebration of Community Healing Days is a catalyst for a continuing grassroots movement-not just a once-a-year event. Dr. Cheryl Grills, president of ABPsi, said ABPsi and its members will "provide advice and hands-on help to establish ongoing local healing circles where Black people can meet regularly to come to terms with and heal from the emotional legacies of slavery and racism."
The healing circles that will be established gradually in cities across the country with the help of ABPsi are central to CHN's plan to build a grassroots movement to overturn the lie of Black inferiority. This new partnership is a crucial step on the road to CHN's goal of building a nationwide network of self-help groups by 2019-so that, as a people, we will see ourselves in a whole new light by the year 2020.
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Don't forget to put "time for healing" on your agenda. Visit www.communityhealingnet.org to respond to Dr. Maya Angelou's call to Wear Sky Blue to show your support for the movement. And please help us spread the word. Share this newsletter with your family and friends, and urge them to sign up to Wear Sky Blue too, and join us on Facebook and Twitter. For more on what you can do to help build the movement, please click here.
Thank you.
Enola Aird, Jill Snyder, Dottie Green, Natalie Roche, Tarice Gray, Wizdom Powell Hammond, Sheila Warren, Ric Jennings, Gretchen Vaughn, and all your friends at Community Healing Network, Inc.
P.S. We need your help to make this the decade for the emotional emancipation of black people. CHN is a low-overhead, volunteer-run, 501(c) (3) grassroots organization. We are supported entirely by charitable donations. Your gift of any amount will help. Please donate today using the secure link below, or send a check to Community Healing Network, Inc., 111 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, Attention: Jill Snyder, Treasurer. Thanks again. |
