Virtual Café by YouthREX | Chiara | Activity https://cafe.youthrex.com/members/chiara/activity/ Activity feed for Chiara. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:07:30 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fd6381539af3fa5869160d51905a5172 Chiara replied to the discussion Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing https://cafe.youthrex.com/communities/centering-black-youth-wellbeing/forum/discussion/challenge-how-do-we-make-language-of-this-more-accessible-to-broader-public/#post-2913 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:55:45 -0400 Reply to Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public

Finally, I wonder about the practice of active and intentional listening for stories other than our own (e.g., the NPR podcast Code Switch) and its role in co-creating language:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/

]]> fbeaf4d42e3b59ad8342ac559bb03af1 Chiara replied to the discussion Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing https://cafe.youthrex.com/communities/centering-black-youth-wellbeing/forum/discussion/challenge-how-do-we-make-language-of-this-more-accessible-to-broader-public/#post-2912 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:46:57 -0400 Reply to Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public

Some resources of interest, mainly geared to help children understand concepts and realities such as ‘intersectionality’…

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]]> 6a3d26a75aa4d31da4a0753cccaadb2d Chiara replied to the discussion Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing https://cafe.youthrex.com/communities/centering-black-youth-wellbeing/forum/discussion/challenge-how-do-we-make-language-of-this-more-accessible-to-broader-public/#post-2911 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:32:42 -0400 Reply to Challenge - how do we make language of this more accessible to broader public

Hello. Thank you, Tim, for posing this question and opening this thread; and thank you for all the people who participated in this thread. I am taking the course in the Fall of 2023 and the same question about language and its clarity and accessibility came up for me.

I wonder whether there may be any qualitative research about how…

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]]> 579f021ffbdcc82bf54b775414acd16c Chiara replied to the discussion Intersectional and Advocacy Strategies for Supporting Mental Health Wellbeing in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing https://cafe.youthrex.com/communities/centering-black-youth-wellbeing/forum/discussion/intersectional-and-advocacy-strategies-for-supporting-mental-health-wellbeing/#post-2908 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:56:01 -0400 Reply to Intersectional and Advocacy Strategies for Supporting Mental Health Wellbeing

Thank you, Candace for sharing your reflections on this particular module and your experience working with Black youth, and youth in general. I just listened to Dr. Edwards’ module 3.4. and I found myself revisiting some of my clinical work with Black youth, as a mental health counsellor in a children and youth mental health agency in the GTA.…

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]]> ab963b06a82e221f72f68a7cee7100cb Chiara replied to the discussion Practical Ideas On Ways To Affirm The Identity Of The Black Community in the forum Centering Black Youth Wellbeing https://cafe.youthrex.com/communities/centering-black-youth-wellbeing/forum/discussion/practical-ideas-on-ways-to-affirm-the-identity-of-the-black-community/#post-2879 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:00:00 -0400 Reply to Practical Ideas On Ways To Affirm The Identity Of The Black Community

Thank you for sharing your experience of having been affirmed as a Black young person, Rochelle. Thank you for the reference to the YouthRex report, monitoring staff; and for the Dr. Wade’s reference, Michaelene. I will dive more into these readings.

I recently watched the movie Brother, after hearing Dr. Andre Davis presentation for Module 1.…

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