Engaging Black People and Power: Learn how Aisha Francis, Founder and Executive Director of @RestoreFIBI, is “Breaking the Cycles of Incarceration and Isolation” in #Ontario.
Join us at Noon TODAY: https://t.co/L5oFIBBBDt
Aisha founded Families Impacted By Incarceration, learn more about how she navigated these system in 2020 on our blog: https://t.co/oaxehmFQ7y #greathumbing@RestoreFIBI
Aisha founded Families Impacted By Incarceration, learn more about how she navigated these system in 2020 on our blog: https://t.co/oaxehmFQ7y #greathumbing@RestoreFIBI
@Hood_Map_Man @DevelopMeYC@RestoreFIBI@smckean @ChrisGloverMPP @ZeroGunViolence I am not sure if SafeTO will post the discussion, but they were speaking about the cause and effect and what needs to happen. Hopefully all levels of government are listening.
Honoured to be on a panel for Black Mental Health Week the topic... Talking About Incarceration: The Impact on Black Individuals, Families and Communities.
Thanks to @RestoreFIBI
Thursday, March 4,2021
6:30pm-8:00pm EST
Online
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@RestoreFIBI The shift is underway from a functional to foundational approach. Yes! Wrap around solutions with collaborators centering those with lived experience.
No one talks about prison widowhood. #EndStigma
How can we improve services for the families impacted?
Many women feel a sense of shame and stigma connected to having a loved one in incarceration. We need more services that appropriately help families and loved ones facing incarceration and the trauma that accompanies it. - Aisha Francis
“Undieniably, a liminal place exists between ruin and restoration for families impacted by gun violence and incarceration. What occurs in that space will determine the outcome of either ruin or restoration.” -Aisha Francis
Aisha Francis is now going to discuss the impact of incarceration and gun violence on families and how it disproportionately affects the black community
@RestoreFIBI Aisha Francis speaking now @wwhealthjustice about the impact of incarceration on families, individual members, where hope and trauma coexist.
"We know what the solutions are. We just need the resources to implement them."