Healing Resources & Focusing on Strengths
“Even though they all had successfully become and practiced as midwives, the scars left after the educational process ran deep, leaving a thick defense and a commitment to future midwives.”
“Future work includes modification of the Power and Privilege course to provide a parallel track of healing resources for people of color.” - Gordon, McCarter & Myers, 2016, p. 724
“Resiliency is an important factor in how people of color resist racism. Human beings have a natural resilient nature, but it must be nurtured or it will be lost.” - Edwards, 2006, p.43
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FamilyCare, Community Care and SelfCare Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma
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Healing Historical Trauma Through Promoting Traditional Culture in Mainstream Medicine
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'There is a Balm...' Spirituality & Healing among African American Women by Stephanie Y. Mitchem
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Community Healing Network Resources including an Essential Reading List
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Mass trauma and emotional healing around the world: Rituals and practices for resilience and meaning-making
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The American Indian Holocaust: Healing Historical Unresolved Grief
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BLACK PAIN: 10 Ways to Heal Your Broken Heart by Terrie M. Williams author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting.
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Evidence for the protective effect of social/contextual influences on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in LGB individuals
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Strength in the Face of Adversity: Resilience Strategies of Transgender Individuals
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Guide to Addiction in the BIPOC Community
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Recognizing and Healing Racism in Society and in Our Bodies: A Radical Act of Sacred Justice
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5 Questions We Often Ask Ourselves After Microaggressions: The "Unseen and Unheard" internal dialogues that affect marginalized peoples
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Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence
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See also Preventing Trauma
"Midwifery education is dominated by white educators. When educators, health care professionals and students are looking for POC information, like workshops, mentors or culturally specific facts, this information is never mainstream.
The following are some sites that helped me to identify POC leaders, educators and health care professionals in the midwifery profession:
- Recent Midwifery Student
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“Some of the liveliest discussions reflected how the participants' ethnicity or gender enhanced their midwifery practice. It became a blend of their philosophical beliefs, their understanding of cultural influences, and their personal experiences.”
"In retrospect, it is evident that all the project participants, but particularly people of color, should have been better supported to deal with painful issues as they arose. In future workshops, the racial makeup of the participants should ideally include a cohort of people of color to provide strength in numbers and group support. In this project, only 2 people self-identified as persons of color. White privilege operates in groups, and in groups dominated by white people talking about privilege and oppression, people of color can quickly become isolated and marginalized."
(Schroeder & DiAngelo, p.252)
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Strengths-Based Advising: A New Lens for Higher Education
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Meyerhoff Scholars Program: A Strengths‐Based, Institution‐Wide Approach to Increasing Diversity
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Increasing Postsecondary Retention and Graduation Through Strengths-Based Education
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The Principles of Strengths-Based Education
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Building a Strengths-Based Campus to Support Student Retention
(formerly International Center for
Traditional Childbearing [ICTC])
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Birthing Change Webinars by Shafia Monroe
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SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
