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**Building Resilience** is Dignity and Power Now’s cohort of healers dedicated to providing healing justice to those impacted by state violence. Using indigenous and holistic practices such as acupuncture, massage, reiki, yoga, bodywork, somatics, plant healing, and meditation, Dignity and Power NOW’s [NAME OF HEALERS?] addresses intergenerational trauma among Black and Brown communities while demonstrating that people don’t always need to rely upon capitalist medicine and the same system that causes abuse, and instead can find healing power within themselves and their community. Using the principles of healing justice, DPN’s Building Resilience program is transforming and ending systems of oppression to create a world in which people are healthy and care for each other. They do that by sharing and creating collective practices that honor the legacy of resilience that our families and communities come from. Building Resilience provides healing justice through both rapid response work and ongoing Wellness Clinics. All of Building Resilience’s offerings are provided free of charge.

Rapid Response

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Freedom Harvest

Wellness Clinics

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Coalitions

The Dandelion Rising Leadership Institute (DRLI) is a leadership development program geared towards high school aged youth and led by formerly incarcerated organizers. DRLI is dedicated to building the leadership, capacity, and skillset of students affected by mass incarceration and youth survivors of deputy abuse. DRLI prioritizes building the leadership of those directly affected because they have the most insight and the highest stakes invested in changing the system. Communities most affected by sheriff abuse and incarceration – namely Black and Brown communities – have long histories of fighting to end state violence. The DRLI program not only teaches that history, but also challenges students to participate in the current moment.

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DRLI is rooted in Dignity and Power Now’s project the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence and youth members are encouraged to participate in strategizing and give public comment at Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission meetings. The current 6-week DRLI curriculum covers topics including know your rights, the history of Los Angeles neighborhoods and rebellions, mapping elected officials, how to build local power, divestment from jails and reinvestment in communities, and an art and social justice field trip. [CHECKING WITH JAMES]

Dignity and Power Now has been visiting Los Angeles area learning facilities with DRLI since 2014 including CALO YouthBuild, Firebaugh High School, Dorsey High School, Hawkins High School, and St. Anne’s. [Some participation opportunities are also available at the DPN office.]

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Forever Rooted is DPN’s leadership development series geared towards people coming home from prison. Forever Rooted uses listening, story-telling, and facilitation skills to amplify the leadership and empowerment of formerly incarcerated people. Throughout Forever Rooted participants will imagine new versions of public safety, gain tools and practices to help move through trauma, and expand their capacity to transform themselves and their communities. Forever Rooted generates creative and resilient leaders that are empowered to fight for the dignity of incarcerated people. This series prioritizes the experiences of formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones in Los Angeles who are Black and Brown, members of other communities of color, and people along the LGBTQ spectrum.

The goals of the Forever Rooted curriculum are to expand and develop the leadership of formerly incarcerated people, to increase the capacity of participants to imagine and build alternatives to existing models of public safety, and to amplify the resilience of participants and their communities. In addition, the program seeks to strengthen members’ commitment to DPN and increase DPN’s number of active members, as well as to broaden the movement towards prison abolition, healing justice, and transformative justice.

Forever Rooted consists of seven daylong sessions and takes place at the DPN office. Sessions are currently suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic but we offer [CHECK IN JAMES]]

If you are interested in participating in Forever Rooted please contact DPN Lead James Nelson.