RYSE Center in Richmond, CA was born of out of young people of color (YPOC) organizing to shift the conditions of violence, distress, and dehumanization in which they suffer, survive, succeed, dream, and die. We center the lived experiences of YPOC, we lead with love and sacred rage to cultivate healing and build movement, and we take risks as an essential part of transformation and justice, of liberation. We do this in a physical space that feels safe, welcoming, and affirming; that is...

Register HERE Trauma is historical, structural, political, intergenerational, interpersonal, and embodied. So then must be our healing . WHAT: RYSE's 4th Annual Trauma and Healing Learning Series will build on learnings and impacts of previous years to assert and ensure racial justice as central tenet of trauma-informed approaches. At this Launch, we will share our framework of atmospheric trauma and healing and its application in personal, organizational, and collective praxis. The Trauma...

“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.” –bell hooks One of the most notable descriptors of trauma-informed care is shifting the question of what is wrong...

When ACEs are created and carried out by the state, they should count for more points - genocide, enslavement, jim crow, gentrification, religious persecution, racial terror.... Our existence is resilience. Our existence is resistance.

Register for RYSE's Love and Rage in Action Series: Taking care and mobilizing to respond to and resist Trump's First 100 days and beyond.

“Racism is (whites') massive experience of cognitive dissonance.” -Dr. Joy deGruy Social Identity Threat. check. White Supremacy. check. Social Devaluation of People of Color. check. Everyone I know and love faces an amplified threat with Trump. We are people of color, immigrants, variably abled, queer, poor/working class/barely faking it. This is distress, trauma, harm. This is historical, structural, political. We need to Race ACEs. Now now now.

Reflections of Racing ACEs 2016: an exploration of how racial justice – its values, investments, strategies and practices – must be centered at the heart of trauma-informed work.

The persistency of state-sponsored and state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States is largely unrecognized, inquired about, or understood within the conventional and emerging trauma and trauma-informed fields. What systems can we look to when for safety, stabilization, or support when the harm and hurt we bear is their doing and being? This blog article was helpful for me as I try to make sense of and tend to my own and my communities' grief and terror. ...

"My experience with violence is very brutal...I grew up with violence as if it were my sibling." - LC participant (youth) "We know we can't run the city- it's too complex- but our experience and our voices should count, especially because we're the most effected ." - LC participant (youth) "Our city's problems are shared by us all; we are all part of the problem AND the solution. Listening is a key component to healing." - LC Share Out partici pant (adult) Three years ago, RYSE Center in...