Empowering People and the Agencies that Serve Them
So...how do we get There from Here?
Together!
Let's make ‘better’ available
so people get the opportunities,
resources & tools they need to create wellness solutions that address the complex issues & challenges
facing our communities today.
Let's Make It Happen Our Why
Why Social Change & Research
Let's explores what's going on when African American ingenuity and drive meets with good success; and the ways our growth is stunted in the face of intentional "Opportunity gaps" that spark pushback & upheavals?
Our culturally relevant lens helps identify disparities,
causal patterns, and prolonged effects of lack in order to better understand how to navigate from stagnation to well-being, to self-sufficiency and wellness
with increased self-efficacy
--then measure our impacts.
Today, African Americans still have to navigate life
under the weight of systemic racism as well as social, political, and health disparities.
About 2/3 of Black adults at every income level say the economic system intentionally holds Black people back. (2024, Pew)
Much of it has manifested as what
Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray called the “4 P’s”
Poverty of Pocket, Poverty of Family,
Poverty of Education, Poverty of Purpose
(unrealized or hindered).
8 Dimensions of Wellness
Yes. Life really does have a lot of moving pieces!
SAMHSA encourages everyone to think of wellness
as being healthy in these interconnecting dimensions. .
These areas include:
- Emotional
- Environmental
- Financial
- Intellectual
- Physical
- Occupational
- Social
- Spiritual
Challenges or lack in these can
cause worry, stress, unemployment, homelessness
and leads to disparities (noticeable
unfair and problematic difference) over time
CDC's 5 SDOH
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) realized that many low-income people of color were not thriving!
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) refers to the conditions and circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age that impact their health and wellness. The quality of these determines if you are
or will be ‘healthy & prosperous’ or ‘unhealthy & in lack.’
These 5 SDOHs affect your 8 Dimensions!
Positive impacts create Assets
Negative impacts create Disparities
Getting There from Here
Our Commitment
While there is no magic wand, Let’s is convinced African American communities deserve an opportunity to use their collective ingenuity and desire to thrive, to foster innovative win-win experiences for themselves.
It is right “for such a time as this.”
“We should hold fast to dreams for if they die, life is just a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes
