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CORE's comprehensive support plans for truth and reconciliation participants
3:16:11
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Linda Tigani outlines CORE's comprehensive plans to support participants in the truth and reconciliation process, addressing potential trauma and providing ongoing care.
- Plans include mental health professionals, spiritual leaders, and faith-based support
- Emphasizes the need for diverse support reflecting community needs
- Discusses integrating movement and physical activities into the process
- Outlines plans for continuous support, including resources for after-hours care
- Addresses challenges in providing culturally appropriate support in underserved areas
Linda Tigani
3:16:11
Yes, thank you for that question that came up also in one of the reparations Q and A.
3:16:16
So most people in at least in my field, I'm a trained social worker and so people would say we need social workers in the room, we need mental health counselors in the room, and absolutely we do want to have that.
3:16:30
We also need religious leaders and spiritual leaders of all faiths and beliefs and practices and that's part of what we want to do with the organizations because it's such a variation across communities.
3:16:43
Part of what we want to see in the plan is what types of spiritual or faith leaders or mental health counselors do we want in the room.
3:16:54
We are also thinking about what does that mean for the very first session.
3:16:59
Right?
3:16:59
So even telling your story, but you're thinking about how to create a space for others to tell their story whether you share or not.
3:17:09
Pain may come up and it rests and lives in our body.
3:17:13
So we're also thinking about how do we integrate movement into these spaces.
3:17:18
This is part of what we will be spending the $1,000,000 on is being able to contract and pull in not only organizations that want to lead the racial healing conversations, organizations and collectives that can provide the support so that and the way that I frame it is we are opening up wounds, like we're inviting people to and they open up a wound.
3:17:44
And that wound could have happened a day before, two days before, or two generations before and they carry that.
3:17:52
So what do we need to make you whole so that you can walk back out?
3:17:57
And that's gonna look like everything from food to childcare to mental health to spiritual health to faith, but also it has to be continuous and that is something that we're also looking into.
3:18:09
What happens when they get home?
3:18:12
Who can they call?
3:18:13
Where can they go to?
3:18:15
We have a lot of resources in New York City and part of our planning is to be able to pull that together and create a little bit of a toolkit or a resource guide that says these thoughts are gonna come up when you think you're laying down, when you're putting your head down after you've had dinner.
3:18:33
Here's the number that you can call for support.
3:18:35
We're really lucky in New York and also in the nation to have 988, which connects you to New York City, our New York City line where you can talk directly to a mental health counselor, where you can get immediate services in over 200 languages.
3:18:53
So we want to be able to leverage those resources so that we can spend our dollars on having support in the room and building out support in the communities that we're talking about.
3:19:05
I'll say lastly, when we talk about the hyper local communities that are doing that are gonna be doing this work that have also experienced the greatest disinvestments, intentional disinvestments based on racial discrimination, language discrimination, citizenship citizenship discrimination.
3:19:24
We are also talking about communities that are diverse in language and also communities that may be considered as federally designated mental health shortage areas.
3:19:37
And that's a very critical component of this conversation.
3:19:40
We need to be able to find healers, faith leaders, social workers, and support that community says looks like them and can support them, and that's a that's one of our challenges that we're seeking to work through in this process.