A brand new restricted podcast collection known as “Let’s Finish Home Violence: Heal, Restore, Forestall” options conversations with as we speak’s main home violence prevention specialists about how we are able to break the cycle and finish home violence in California.
(left to proper) Bonnie Boswell, journalist; Trina Greene, founder and Government Director of Parenting for Liberation; Kelli Dillon, Gender-based Violence Prevention Program Analyst with the Metropolis of Oakland; Karen Earl, Government Director of the Jenesse Heart; and Eric Morrison-Smith, Government Director of the Alliance for Boys and Males of Coloration
Nationwide — This Black Historical past Month, Blue Protect of California Basis is presenting the restricted collection podcast Let’s Finish Home Violence: Heal, Restore, Forestall, which spotlights Black leaders in California who’re working to finish home violence and create a safer future for Black households and communities.
The podcast collection celebrates Black trailblazers who all share a typical purpose to finish home violence in California together with Karen Earl, Government Director of the Jenesse Heart; Dr. Teiahsha Bankhead, Government Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth; Kelli Dillon, Gender-based Violence Prevention Program Analyst with the Metropolis of Oakland; and Sonya Younger Aadam, CEO of the California Black Ladies’s Well being Mission.
In Episode 4, “Elevating Options and Impacts within the Black Neighborhood,” Trina Greene, founder and Government Director of Parenting for Liberation, spoke to the hope that youth present within the combat to vary programs that perpetuate all types of violence.
“The youngsters are our future, however not within the cliche approach. What I love about younger folks is that they nonetheless have curiosity, they nonetheless have a radical creativeness. And I really feel like trauma, racism, white supremacy, all of the issues — all of the -isms — it strips us of that as adults. We don’t consider issues are potential. And so what brings me hope is supporting the oldsters that I work with,” Greene stated.
Within the fifth and ultimate episode, famend activist and creator Angela Davis displays on the concept of hope and the present second of change for home violence prevention and therapeutic.
“It is a interval not like some other. Folks wish to take into consideration the 60s because the revolutionary interval. However I believe that is the revolutionary interval,” stated Davis. “If we do the work we are saying we’re doing, and if we do transfer ahead, there can be those that wish to return to the outdated days. Those that wish to return to the interval when racism was unchallenged when patriarchy was the best way folks thought the world functioned. In order that’s truly a sign of the truth that we’re making progress. I really feel very hopeful.”
Each conversations additionally touched on the necessity to interact entire communities in prevention and therapeutic options with the intention to tackle the multi-generational nature of home violence.
“A part of the explanation why we use [the phrase] ‘intimate companion violence’ is to actually spotlight the truth that that is truly a difficulty that impacts complete households,” stated Eric Morrison-Smith, Government Director of the Alliance for Boys and Males of Coloration. “I believe in a variety of occasions folks suppose it’s simply interpersonal between possibly a husband and a spouse, or companions, however these points truly bleed into impacting kids after which it additionally impacts the complete neighborhood. We’re actually speaking about protected relationships, and that’s what builds protected communities.”
All 5 episodes of Let’s Finish Home Violence: Heal, Restore, Forestall may be discovered at letsenddv.org/podcast in addition to on Spotify, Apple Music, and Buzzsprout.
About Blue Protect of California FoundationBlue Protect of California Basis helps lasting and equitable options to make California the healthiest state and finish home violence. After we work collectively to take away the boundaries to well being and well-being, particularly for Californians most affected, we are able to create a extra simply and equitable future. The Basis is an impartial nonprofit, funded solely by contributions from Blue Protect of California. Be taught extra at blueshieldcafoundation.org
