Vision, Mision, and Impact
Our Vision Statement:
A state where uniquely diverse communities have accessible, inclusive, and equitable rights to operate and serve effectively, efficiently, and sustainably.
Our Mission Statement:
Serving to empower uniquely diverse communities by building partnerships, securing funding, running programs, offering integrative services, and providing resources.
To accomplish our mission, we intentionally operate to:
- Build Partnerships: Connect to local and state agencies and organizations.
- Secure Funding: Search for grants and donations to carry out our programs.
- Run Programs: Develop programs that are designed to meet the needs of our communities.
- Offer Integrative Services: Employ an ecological model and dynamic systems approach that embraces all areas of the community, starting with individuals.
- Provide Resources: Stand up for equitable access to sustainable skills, strategies, and means to accomplish personal, professional, communal, and cultural goals, seeing this through past conception.
Our Impact
Partnerships
Need: Racial, Cultural, Linguistic competent BIPOC behavioral health providers in RI.
Our work to meet this unmet need:
- We offer racial, cultural, and linguistic competent exposure, training, supervision, and mentorship.
- We have partnered with SabaterLAB as co-directors for their Clinical Training and Service Internship Program.
- We are a directory-listed Practicum Training Collaborative (PTC) clinical site for Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program’s students at William James College.
- We are a SkillsRI Employer Partner, Vendor, and Employer Site for PrepareRI Summer Internship Program.
- We are Mentoring Partners for the Learning Through Internship (LTI) Program at The Met High School.
- We have hosted interns from William James College, Community College of Rhode Island, and Rhode Island College/SkillsRI AmeriCorps Program.
- We have hosted interns from The Met High School, Pilgrim High School, Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School, Cranston High School East, Mount Pleasant High School, Juanita Sanchez High School, 360 High School, E-Cubed Academy, Blackstone Academy, Central Falls High School, Shea High School, and North Kingston High School.
Our Impact:
Fall 2021
William James College - Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Clinical Psychology Doctoral student completed almost 500 hours of advance clinical practicum in 2021.
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Summer 2022
SkillsRI PrepareRI - Summer Internship for Rising High School Seniors
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Interns successfully completed all requirements for our Youth Mental Health Office Assistant Internship.
Total of 730 [240 each*3] hours of employer internship placement.
Total 3 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Fall 2022
Volunteer Learning Opportunities - Unenrolled College Student Program
SabaterLAB Career/Experiential Learning Program
Volunteer developed the skills needed to assist in social media, marketing, communications, and IT tasks for a semester. Volunteer enrolled in college and secured a position post learning experience.
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Total 1 #enrolled college student
Total 1 #found employment
Spring 2023
The Met High School - Learning Through Internship (LTI) Program
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Summer 2023
SkillsRI PrepareRI - Summer Internship for Rising High School Seniors
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Interns successfully completed all requirements for our Youth Mental Health & Office Assistant Internship and received Certification in Youth Mental Health First Aid.
Total of 2,250 [150 each*15] hours of employer internship placement.
Total 15 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Fall 2023
The Met High School - Learning Through Internship (LTI) Program
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Winter 2023/2024
Rhode Island College - AmeriCorps and SkillsRI Interns
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
Spring 2024
The Met High School - Learning Through Internship (LTI) Program
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Total 1 #Intern
Total 1 #terms
+ We are assisting to:
Advance workforce behavioral health workforce capacity and pipeline equity.
Increase
accessibility and inclusion of clinical opportunities for BIPOC students, interns, and volunteers.
Community
TNeed: Resources and opportunities for BIPOC business community, members, and workers in The Black Block Cultural District in Downtown Pawtucket.
Our work to meet this unmet need:
- We served as founding members of the initial Black Block Community Resource Committee.
- We collaborate on grassroot efforts and transformational leadership.
- We serve as founding board directors of The Black Block Community Foundation.
- We, alongside community partners, members, and organizations, work, collaborate, and assist in the establishment of The Black Block Cultural District in Downtown Pawtucket.
Our Impact:
Year 2022
- Advanced steps towards the establishment of nonprofit organization in the community.
- Collaborated in weekly community organizing meetings.
- Created co-empowerment opportunities towards effective, efficient, and sustainable community results.
- Advanced the operating and serving capacity of our community.
Year 2023
- Assisted in the inception of The Black Block Community Foundation.
- Served as the principal author of the organization’s articles of incorporation, and its bylaws.
- Completed all documentation required for the IRS 501c3 tax exemption status obtained in an unprecedented time of eight days after application submission.
- Helped in grant writing tasks resulting in funding secured.
Year 2024
- As community partner assist in leading coordinated efforts to serve and collaborate with members of the community to establish The Black Block Cultural District and advocate and secure for programs for the community.
+ We are assisting to:
Increase access to local, municipal, and state resources for our community.
Establish partnerships with other local and state levels organizations and elected officials.
Implement
a grassroot governance structure within a just transition system with, for, and by our community members.
Integrative Services
Need: Stigma around mental health and mental health help-seeking behavior in BIPOC community.
Our work to meet this unmet need and Our Impact:
August 2022
Day 1 Mental Health Screening
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Community Event/Downtown Pawtucket
Our Impact:
25 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
10 individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
25 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 60 individuals reached.
August 2022
Day 2 Mental Health Screening
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Community Event/Downtown Pawtucket
Our Impact:
20 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
15 individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
25 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 75 individuals reached
June 2023
Community Care Mini Clinics
Pawtucket-Central Falls Health Equity Zone
Unidos Podemos Participatory Budgeting Community Event
Our Impact:
35 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
N/A # individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
30 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 65 individuals reached.
August 2023
Community Care Mini Clinics
SabaterLAB Clinical Training and Service Internship Program
Community Project B
Our Impact:
45 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
13 individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
25 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 83 individuals reached.
September 2023
Community Care Mini Clinics
Pawtucket Arts Festival
Our Impact:
25 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
10 individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
50 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 85 individuals reached.
September 2023
Community Care Mini Clinics
Nha Tera Nha Ketcheu Festival in Pawtucket - Cape Verdean Culture
Our Impact:
45 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
N/A # individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
55 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 100 individuals reached.
December 2023
Community Care Mini Clinics
SabaterLAB Foundation Ambassadors Program
Clinical Training and Services Ambassadors Program
Career Exploration Day 10 Alumni/Former Interns
Our Impact:
10 individuals received “informational packets” about mental health.
N/A # individuals participated in Mental Health Screening sessions.
25 individuals received exposure to MH information (no packets/screening).
Total 35 individuals reached.
+ We are assisting to:
Increasing awareness of mental health, connecting, validating and normalizing of individual and comunal lived experiences using a cultural approach appropriate and representative of our community.
Advancing
steps towards universal literacy of mental wellness and transformational resilience in our community.
Programs
Need:
Educational efforts, professional goals, and sustainable skills towards upward mobility for BIPOC business community, members, and workers in The Black Block Cultural District and Providence County.
Our work to meet this unmet need:
- We offer free of charge Spanish language classes for individuals, small business owners, and nonprofit organizations.
- We offer free of charge Grant Writing Class in scheduled sessions, coaching/consultation, and proposal application.
- We offer training opportunities, volunteers-and-interns-led supported activities, community engagement projects to further reduce stigma around mental health and help seeking.
- We have partnered with SkillsRI, and collaborated with Core Collaboratives LLC on projects related to workforce development goals.
- We provide technical assistance for small businesses and created new jobs.
- We are helping to generate more opportunities to upskill our community members with access to advanced essential mental health strategies, wellbeing self-care, and workforce/real jobs skills.
Our Impact:
Year 2022
- 2 BIPOC small business owners and 1 nonprofit board of directors completed Spanish classes.
- The Heart Tree completed our grant writing class and secured a state level grant as a result.
- Total 2 #small businesses
- Total 1 #small nonprofits
- Total 3 #courses
Year 2023
- We provided technical assistance to small nonprofit organizations to obtain 501(c)(3) IRS tax exempt status.
- Total 2 #small nonprofits
- Total 2 # achieved 501(c)(3) IRS tax exempt status (100% success rate)
- We recruited, hired, trained, and retained new positions
- Total 3 #new positions.
- We provided technical assistance to small businesses locally, within Providence County, including Black owned small businesses. Included are grant writing classes, and basic computer training.
- Total 20 #small businesses
- Total 4 #courses [average 100 #hours]
Year 2024
- We recruited, hired, trained, and retained new positions.
- Total 2 #new positions.
- Technical Assistance and coaching to Early Childhood Providers and other minority entrepreneurs. Included are grant writing classes, basic computer training, and early childhood curriculum approved by Center of Early Learning Professionals.
- Total 35 #providers
- Total 10 #courses [average 1,015 #hours]
- Volunteer Opportunities sign up through United Way platform.
- Total 2 #volunteers (new)
+ We are assisting to:
Advancing educational and professional goals.
Improving access to sustainable skills.
Contributing to economic development towards upward mobility across different sectors.
Total Success - Our Amazing Summer Internship 2023 Program!
15 INTERNS!!!!
PrepareRI Internship
Youth Mental Health & Office Assistant
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