We are a collective of students who believe all youth deserve trauma-informed community care.

Through community partnerships, Joy&theHood connects middle and high school BIPOC youth to wellness programming led by BIPOC Healing Justice practioners.

Healing Justice is the framework that grounds our work. As defined by the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective:

“Healing Justice is a political strategy conceived … to intervene and respond on generational trauma and systemic oppression, and build community/survivor led responses rooted in southern traditions of resiliency to sustain our emotional/physical/spiritual/psychic and environmental well being.”

At Joy&theHood, we translate this framework into youth-centered curriculum by:

• integrating culturally rooted wellness practices,

• centering collective care and survivor-led knowledge,

• and creating space for BIPOC youth to process trauma while building joy, resilience, and agency.