Finding Relief in Action: The Intersection of Youth-Led Community Organizing and Mental Health in Brooklyn, New York City
Finding Relief in Action: The Intersection of Youth-Led Community Organizing and Mental Health in Brooklyn, New York City
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10.1177/0044118x18758542
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发表时间：
2020-05-01
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Brathwaite, Brittany
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Ortega-Williams, Anna;Wernick, Laura J.;Brathwaite, Brittany
有色人种青年，特别是低收入家庭的青年，经历着影响他们福祉的多重压力和创伤。很少有研究探讨青年参与领导和组织以解决系统性不平等对他们的心理健康和福祉的影响。在一个以社区为基础的参与式行动研究设计，三个组织，培训青年的颜色在组织在布鲁克林，纽约，举行了四个焦点小组（n = 43，年龄14-24岁），以研究组织对青年心理健康和福祉的影响。青年组织的关键新兴主题包括：（a）讲故事作为治疗;（B）团体领导作为加强个人和集体的力量，责任感和保护感;以及（c）航行他们的希望和当前现实的压力。这项研究具有重要意义的行动方案可以采取谁寻求参与组织在社区和机构的颜色青年受历史创伤和当今的系统性不平等。
Youth of Color, especially those in households with low income, experience multiple stressors and trauma that affect their well-being. Few studies examine the impact of youth engagement in leadership and organizing to address systemic inequity on their mental health and well-being. In a community-based participatory action research design, three organizations which train youth of Color in organizing in Brooklyn, New York, held four focus groups (n = 43, ages 14-24 years) to examine the impact of organizing on youth mental health and well-being. Key emergent themes of youth organizing include (a) storytelling as therapeutic; (b) group leadership as strengthening personal and collective power, hopefulness, and a sense of protection; and (c) the strain of navigating their hopes and current reality. This study has important implications for actions programs can take who seek to engage youth of Color in organizing in communities and institutions impacted by historical trauma and current day systemic inequity.