Community

Kindred grows out of Santa Barbara County and the people who were doing this work long before we arrived. Here are organizations we've worked alongside in some way, and others whose work we want more people to know.

Alongside us in Santa Barbara County

• Gateway Educational Services – Black-led education and youth leadership across the county
• Healing Justice Santa Barbara – Black-led healing and organizing. Their 2020 call for Black therapists is where Healing Space began.
• NAACP Santa Maria–Lompoc Branch – civil rights advocacy and community programming in North County
• Juneteenth Santa Barbara – the county's Juneteenth celebration and community events
• SBCC Umoja – a Santa Barbara City College community rooted in African and African American traditions

In schools

This year Kindred is leading formation for educators and school leaders in Santa Barbara Unified, centered on belonging for Black and Multiracial Black students. The barriers Black students face are old, and they run through our schools and the wider society. Moving them takes educators, school staff and district leaders willing to do personal work on identity, reshape school culture and take up anti-racist work in the structures of schooling itself. We do this alongside community leaders who've been doing it here far longer than we have.

Beyond Santa Barbara

• Gender Health Center, Sacramento – our partner in the Kindred internship and postdoctoral consortium

At UC Santa Barbara

• Office of Black Student Development
• Multicultural Center
• Center for Black Studies Research
• Counseling & Psychological Services
• Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Clinic
• Certificate in Bilingual School Psychology

Work we admire

• BEAM – the Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
• The Association of Black Psychologists
• MICOP – the Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project, serving Indigenous families in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
• CAUSE – the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy
• Santa Barbara County Promotores Network – community health workers connecting families to care
• Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara
• Pacific Pride Foundation – support and community for LGBTQ+ people in Santa Barbara County

With gratitude

Our work is sustained by the Towbes Foundation, the Santa Barbara Foundation, the Fund for Santa Barbara, the James S. Bower Foundation, the Hutton Parker Foundation and the University of California Office of the President. Healing Space began with a founding gift from Carrie Towbes and John Lewis.

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