Sis, It's time for Self-care!
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What is the Sister Healing Circle?
Hey Sis, we are living in unprecedented times, which can trigger our past traumas. We recognize that trauma-informed care for BIPOC women needs to be culturally responsive. We are here to provide a safe space to share your stories and for you to receive a supportive village to navigate your healing journey! The Sister Healing Circle offers adult women educational and experiential tools to continue healing. For six months, there will be weekly virtual support groups and monthly in-person retreats focusing on self-care workshops led by clinical and coaching staff. No cost for participation! Applications are currently closed June 30, 2023.
What is included?
Sister Healing Circle FREE 6 Months Program Includes:
- Monthly in-person self-care retreats with wellness experts
- Weekly supportive network meetings (virtual)
- Culturally responsive, trauma-informed activities for BlPOC Women
- Childcare/transportation options available
- Caring and professional facilitators
- Healthy and nutritional meals
- Restorative healing practices that relax the mind, body, and spirit
What to Bring: Absolutely Nothing! ECA's generous donors, sponsors, and partnership with Avail Holistic Healing allowed this opportunity to be accessible to participants. We ask that you only bring an open mind and open heart!
Am I eligible to participate?
Eligibility Criteria:
- Woman age 21 years and older
- Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
- Resides in Richmond or the Greater Richmond Area
- Have experienced trauma as an adult or child. Traumas may include but are not limited to community violence, domestic/partner violence, sexual assault, child molestation, child abuse, poverty, loss/grief, life stressors, etc.
- The support group is designed to support women who are functionally coping with PTSD, trauma, depression, anxiety, and life stressors and seeking alternative healing practices.
Who Should Not Participate?
You should NOT attend the Sister Healing Circle if you:
- Are experiencing suicidal thoughts or thoughts of harming others. Please call 911.
- Have a more severe diagnosis in which a group setting will trigger.
- Have any aggressive or disruptive behaviors that will impede the group's healing.
Ineligibility Criteria:
- Currently involved in court or legal issues (probation, parole, deferred adjudication)
- Child and Adult protective services involvement
- Couples in or moving towards divorce proceedings.
- Involvement in Current Child Custody Cases
- Court-ordered services
- Struggling with drugs and alcohol as a primary issue
- Suffering from chronic mental illness
- Any issue outside of the therapeutic competency of our counseling staff
- History of personal self-harm
- Sister Healing Circle is NOT a crisis intervention program and encourages women struggling with significant untreated mental health symptoms, active drug and alcohol addiction, or homelessness to seek other professional help before applying.
How Do I apply?
Application and Selection Process/Timeline:
- Phase 1: Complete the application and provide a front/back copy of a valid ID by June 30, 2023, by 5:00 pm ET.
- Phase 2: June 17-30, 2023, Selection Committee will review applications and select candidates to complete the registration packet.
- Phase 3: June 17-July 1, 2023, Selected Candidates will receive a registration packet via email to complete. Selected Candidates must complete the registration packet by July 20, 2023, by 5:00 pm ET.
- Phase 4: July 1-10, 2023, Selection Committee will review registration packets and select candidates to schedule a virtual face-to-face consultation. Selection Committee will send selected candidates a notification to schedule a virtual consultation.
- Phase 5: July 11-13, 2023, Participate in a Virtual 20-minute consultation with Cameras On. This meeting serves twofold: 1) to assess eligibility for participation and 2) for the candidate to learn and ask questions about the program.
- Phase 6: July 14-15, 2023. Selection Committee will select the final candidates and send a notification. The final candidates will have until July 20, 2023, 5:00 pm ET, to accept participation in the program.
What Will I gain from participating?
Our objective is to provide you with the tools and support so that by the end of the six months, there will be an improvement in your physical fitness, mental health, and social wellness dimensions of self-care. In other words, we want you to live your best life by loving yourself and embracing sisterhood!
This program is focused on empowerment. Empowering knowledge and self-advocacy can instill growth; therefore, by providing programming that helps BlPOC women in developing a greater understanding of what they are experiencing, emotionally and physically, and how to address it appropriately, they will become self-advocates, taking an active, educated role in their lives to reduce the risks of psychological or health-related phenomena.
What are the Program dates?
Monthly In-Person Self Care Retreats:
August 26 10am-3pm
September 10 11am-2pm
October 7 10am-3pm
November 4 10am-3pm
December 2 10am-3pm
January 6 10am-3pm
Weekly Virtual Peer Support Group (Sundays 2pm):
8/27, 9/17, 9/24, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17, 1/7, 1/21, 1/28
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