Mental Health is about the way you think and feel and your ability to deal with ups and downs, and unexpected tum arounds that often have us each bound down behind these lines of misunderstanding. Mental Health, Substance Abuse or Co-occuring challenges and their recovery processes are an all day, every day continual struggle, often for life. […]

Behind closed doors however, it was a more disruptive environment saddled with depression, alcoholism and drug usage to self-medicate from unresolved childhood issues stemming from abuse, abandonment and identity crisis. I was raised by my maternal grandmother from the age of three in a predominately white but diverse neighborhood which stunted my Black education and Black identity. Coming […]

“We can not consider ourselves to be abolitionists, yet work to uphold the system we’re said to be abolishing…” especially when we continue to drain our communities every 15 minute collect phone call; messages sent, letters posted asking, often demanding J-Pays like the addict stealing Christmas presents from the children we claim to love. ACCOUNTABILITY […]