Upcoming Events
Session Two: The Power of Now: Restoring Yourself in the Present
Facilitated by Felicia Griffin, Sweet Magnolia Consulting
This session centers the emotional and embodied impact of organizing and caregiving during a crisis.
Participants will:
➡️ Understand the impacts of political trauma, chronic stress, and fear on caregivers, families, and organizers.
➡️ Learn accessible healing and grounding practices for individuals and groups.
➡️ Practice collective care strategies that can be integrated into meetings, campaigns, and community spaces.
➡️ Build a shared commitment to sustainability and resilience within the movement.
This two-part Popular Education (Pop Ed) training series is designed to deepen the connection between the child care movement and immigrant justice while equipping participants with tools for healing and resilience during politically volatile times. Grounded in collective learning, lived experience, and action-oriented reflection, the series creates space for child care providers, organizers, caregivers, and allies to build shared analysis, strengthen solidarity, and practice communal care.
At a moment when immigrant families and the child care workforce face heightened political attacks, policy instability, and fear, this series supports participants in connecting systems analysis with embodied healing practices.
Racist Roots of Child Care Workshop with Dr. Marla Dean
Child care in America is in crisis — but the cracks in the system didn’t appear overnight. The low wages, lack of protections, and racial inequities that define today’s childcare workforce are not accidents. They are the direct inheritance of deliberate choices made over centuries.
In this powerful, interactive workshop, participants trace the through-line from enslaved Black women forced to nurse white children while their own went without, to the New Deal policies that deliberately locked domestic workers out of economic progress, to the immigrant caregiver today earning poverty wages while parents struggle to pay $1,500 a month for care. History doesn’t repeat itself — it compounds.
Facilitated by Dr. Marla M. Dean of Dean’s List Consulting, this 90-minute session invites childcare professionals, parents, advocates, and policy leaders to engage honestly with the past, reflect on their own experiences, and imagine — and commit to — a more equitable future.
This is not a lecture. It is a brave-space conversation that asks us to look clearly at where we’ve been, so we can be honest about where we are, and bold about where we’re going.
Come ready to learn. Leave ready to act.
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