CA Dept of Public Health's partner in the California Reducing Disparities Project, Implementation Pilot Projects (IPP). The one described below features the community defined evidence practice of the African American IPP: Whole Systems Learning.
The Turning Resilience into Brilliance for Eternity Program (TRIBE) is a 5-year program that takes a public health approach to prevent mental illness, by promoting health in a scientific way, for African American foster and adjudicated youth. The TRIBE program is comprised of African American youth, ages 14-18, who are at risk of mental illness, homelessness and incarceration upon emancipation. TRIBE recognizes the inherent resilience in these children, who have suffered the worst of complex trauma, and cultivates it further by developing psychological, social, biological and environmental protective factors.
These protective factors reduce the risk for Skid Row and homelessness, prison, drug addiction, educational failure, and mental illness, including Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD), depression, suicide, and other psychiatric conditions. Instead, TRIBE develops these protective factors and builds resilience to empower African American youth to achieve and thrive, despite racism, poverty and adverse childhood experiences.
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