Nepantlah 2024-2025
Session Overview
This session will take you through the Latinx Therapists Action Network's recent Care Guide with over 26 healing practices to resource ourselves and the communities we work with in these catalytic times. Francisca Porchas Coronado will ground this session in the framework and practice of Healing Justice, which emerges from Black, Indigenous, queer, and disability justice lineages and calls for the collective integration of political and spiritual strategies to respond to trauma and build resilience in our communities in face of oppression.
Learning Objective #1:
Gain a practical understanding about the framework and practice of Healing Justice and the critical role it can play in mitigating community impacts of oppression.
Learning Objective #2:
Acquire critical guidance on how to use the Latinx Therapists Action Network Care Practices Guide and gain wellbeing practices and tools for individual and collective.
Learning Objective #3:
Build the confidence to use your knowledge, skills and experience in support of communities that have historically lacked access to critical mental health support.
Presenter Bio
Francisca Porchas Coronado is a Mexican immigrant, Chicana, feminist, and anti-racist movement builder with 20 years of experience in social justice movements. Francisca has worked on issues of civil rights, environmental and climate justice, criminalization, and immigration at the intersection of race and class at a local and national level. She has been one of the leading voices against deportations of migrants in the country. In 2017, Francisca was the recipient of the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship that led her to the creation of the Latinx Therapist Action Network, a network of Latine therapists across the U.S. committed to interrupting to building systems of care for communities on the frontlines of the struggle for immigrant rights.