Woohoo Week 8!!
Current Events (don’t worry, we’ll have something to talk about here…)
Note from the Editor’s Desk: This is an open week, kinda like a choose-your-own-adventure. You get to decide what to talk about, what to discuss with your family. Yes, I’m including ideas that will be relevant to y’all, but please do practice combing through your community for events and topics important to you. Can’t wait to see what you come up with! -Cam
First, as always, take a peek at the resources linked below.
Second, use this Week 8 Discussion Guide to help you prepare a message for your family members. These weekly guides exist as prompts for self reflection, and they are different each week. They’re also private; for you only. You decide what to share with others or keep private.
Lastly, use the Connected Conversation template (Invitation or Response), depending on where you are in the process) to connect with your family member(s). You might use some of your ideas from the discussion guide to formulate your message.
- Listen to Baratunde Thurston’s message and be mindful about they way you digest headlines these days.
- Consider Lauryn Hill’s Black Rage – contextualized through a historical lens (TW: contains graphic images of American history).
- Browse through Angela Davis’ “Are Prisons Obsolete”?
- Read through Rachel Cargle’s “Black Lives Matter Explained.”
- Review the Duluth Model for “power and control” and consider how it could speak to the way people of color are treated in the U.S., either overtly or covertly.
- Learn about MEPA/IEPA. as it relates to trans-racial adoption, does it really serve the best interest of the child (summary of MEPA)?
- Review the history of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
- Learn what some clinicians mean when they advocate to “Decolonize Mental Health.”
Hope you get some good conversation going this week, keep up the wonderful work y’all! ❤
Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC 