Events

The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) The child health care field is embracing a shift from the traditional child-focused model of well and sick visits to a more upstream preventive, holistic, and anti-racist focus on children, their families, and the systems and communities they interact with regularly. Despite a growing desire to improve care […]

F.A.C.E.S. of Memphis, the Wellness and Stress Clinic of Memphis, the Emotional Fitness Centers of Tennessee and National Federation of Families will host this important session. Join us this Thursday for a virtual lunch and learn! The old adage, ‘prevention is better than cure’, could not be more appropriate for us than it is today. […]

In his 1933 book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson postulated that Black people of his day were culturally indoctrinated rather than taught in American schools, creating people who would be dependent on and seek out inferior places in the dominant white society. One of the significant points Woodson repeated in his discourse was that the entire educational system was structurally unrelated to the future needs of Black children to develop and thrive with lives rooted in self and race knowledge as well as […]