Youth at the Center: Building Trust and Being Available
Vincent Coronado, Big Thought’s Opportunity Advisor, shares his perspective on keeping youth at the center of his work.
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Amazon Supports Big Thought’s Creative Solutions Program
Creative Solutions is an arts-as-workforce intervention program for adjudicated youth that has garnered support from Amazon.
Watching Innocent Black Men Like Ahmaud Arbery Die Is Hurting Our Mental Health
In this op-ed, Lincoln Blades explains the mental toll videos of Black people like Ahmaud Arbery being killed can have.
Young Black People Experience Physical, Emotional Toll of Racism, Studies Show
In this op-ed, Jameelah Nasheed writes about how racial discrimination against Black teens leads to anxiety, depression, and increased substance use.
How to Cope With Race-Based Trauma
It shouldn’t be happening, but we need to care for our mental health amid so much senseless death.
How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.