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A
And
we
welcome
you
to
black
pittsburgh
matters.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
is
a
series
of
virtual
town
hall
meetings,
affirming
a
city-wide
agenda
that
black
pittsburgh
does
indeed
matter.
Black
pittsburgh
matters
mean
that
black
lives
matter.
We
must
protect
the
health
and
safety
of
black
people.
It
means
the
black
communities
matter.
We
must
focus
on
rebuilding
black
communities
and
it
means
that
black
wealth
matters.
We
must
focus
on
increasing
black
employment
and
entrepreneurial
ship.
B
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right
now.
Today's
town
hall
meeting
topic
is
trauma.
Mental
health
and
healing
in
black
pittsburgh.
A
This
past
year
has
been
really
difficult
for
everyone,
but
particularly
the
black
community.
Confronted
with
often
racial
injustices
and
a
public
health
crisis
disproportionately
affecting
african
americans,
the
black
community
has
survived
a
lot
of
trauma
and
challenges
in
a
very
short
period
of
time.
A
B
B
I've
lost,
I
have
a
a
friend
who
lost
her
brother
and
her
brother-in-law
on
successive
days,
both
dakovic,
and
so
I
I
just
know
for
me
not
being
able
to
see
my
children,
you
know
and
not
being
able
to
get
out
and
not
being
able
to
go
to
church
or
even
visit.
My
members
who
are
in
the
hospital
or
nursing
homes-
and
I
just
know,
there's
a
lot
of
building,
stress
and
frustration
and
and
just
myself
just
being
locked
up.
You
know
it's
just
a
there's,
a
psychological
damage.
All
that
takes.
A
Thankfully
prayerfully
I
haven't
had
lost
as
many
people
to
covet
I've
known
a
number
of
people
who
have
fallen
ill
to
it
and
unfortunately,
I
do
know
some
who
have
passed
away
from
it.
But
part
of
what
I
see,
especially
through
my
children,
to
be
quite
frank,
is
the
fact
that
they
miss
being
around
others.
A
They
miss
social
interaction,
they
miss
being
able
to
be
in
school,
they
miss
other
children
and
they
will
often
at
times
struggle
with
that
a
little
bit
with
wanting
to
have
more
social
interaction,
which
I
think
is
why
we've
seen
the
number
of
health
mental
health
cases
going
up
in
our
hospitals
with
school-aged
children,
because
they
don't
know
how
to
struggle.
And
unfortunately,
I've
heard
stories
of
my
children
when
they
talk
to
others
who
don't
necessarily
have
parents
in
the
house
which
makes
it
extremely
hard
for
them
when
they
don't
necessarily
like
my
children.
A
Do
both
me
and
my
wife
are
working
from
home,
so
at
least
they
have
that
level
of
support,
so
many
others
don't
and
then
even
worse
and
not
necessarily
worse.
But
equally
as
devastating
is
the
stress
and
strain
that
is
felt
on
parents,
parents
who
are
struggling
to
figure
out
how
to
deal
with
day
care
parents
who
are
struggling
to
figure
out
whether
or
not
they
stay
home
to
keep
their
kids
in
school
and
or
potentially
have
to
lose
their
job.
B
Yeah,
I
think
I
think
that's
right.
It's
just
a
very
difficult
time
as
we
look
toward
working
together
to
create
a
city
for
all
where
black
pittsburgh
matters.
It's
a
crucial
that
our
approach
takes
mental
health
and
mental
wellness
into
account
where
we
acknowledge
the
trauma
and
challenges
black
pittsburgh
faces
in
working
together
to
move
forward
to
our
future.
We
not
only
achieve
justice
and
equity,
but
we're
able
to
heal
and
behold
from
the
effects
of
prolonged
inequities
and
injustices.
A
C
Yeah,
the
first
thing
I'll
say
is
that
I
think
we
need
to
start
challenging
this
narrative,
that
black
people
are
not
seeking
ways
to
heal
and
that
black
people
are
not
taking
care
of
their
mental
health.
We
see
the
opposite
of
that
in
our
work,
although
there's
a
lot
of
challenges
with
the
pandemic,
with
related
to
covet
related
to
added
stressors,
the
black
folks
that
we're
talking
to
they
want
to
get
therapy
they're,
they're,
actively
participating
in
therapy
and
providing
peer
support
to
their
neighbors
and
their
family
members.
C
So
I
just
want
to
be
just
very
clear
up
front
and
say
that
you
know
the
way
in
which
we
talk
about
black
mental
health
and
trauma.
We
just
have
to
start
planting
those
seeds
and
talking
about
it
from
an
asset
based
place,
so
that
that's
what
I'm
saying
I
just
try
to.
I
try
to
approach
it
from
that
way
and
not
look
at
it
necessarily
from
a
deficit
based
place
and
that.
A
D
Yeah,
I'm
excited,
and
I'm
excited
to
really
be
on
this
panel
with
these
these
brothers,
because
they've
been
doing
this
work
and
they
really
understand
what
our
community's
needs
are.
As
far
as
mental
health
is
concerned,
my
specialty
really
is
focusing
on
poverty.
Most
of
the
work
that
I
do
is
rooted
in
understanding
poverty,
but
not
specifically
from
a
financial
space.
D
So
we
definitely
do
work
that
is
connected
to
the
financial
impact
of
poverty,
but
my
work,
even
including
my
own
personal
work,
is
really
really
rooted
in
understanding
the
emotional
and
psychological
impacts
of
long-term
exposure
to
poverty.
Poverty
trauma
is
something
that
I
think
we
do
not
talk
about
enough.
D
D
They
they're
impacting
our
children
they're,
impacting
how
we
view
ourselves,
how
we
view
our
communities,
and
so
I
try
to
make
sure
that
we
are
infusing
conversations
around
poverty,
trauma
and
ideas
around
poverty
trauma
into
the
work
that
we
do,
because
it
is
so
invasive
and
pervasive
in
our
communities,
and
I
just
don't
think
that
we
think
about
poverty
as
a
traumatic
experience.
The
way
that
we
should.
E
B
E
Going
to
therapy
is
as
normal
as
me,
brushing
my
teeth
every
day.
My
sessions
are
every
monday
at
10
a.m
and,
like
it's
like
it's
in
my
schedule,
I
I've
never
booked
anything
during
that
time
and
I'm
always
looking
forward
to
that
day
into
brother
julius's
point.
You
know,
there's
so
many.
You
know
especially
young
black
folks
who
hit
me
up
and
they
now
talk
about
therapy.
A
lot
and
they'll
hit
me
up
for
advice
and
direction.
E
They
want
it,
you
know
and
oftentimes
they
just
you
know,
don't
know
how
or
or
you
know,
don't
know
who
to
talk
to.
You
know
I'm
always
sending
people
julius
the
still
smiling
website
you
know
and
and
really
engaging
them,
and
you
know
showing
them
that
you
know
this
is
this.
Is
there's
resources
out
there
for
us?
There
are
several.
E
You
know
black
therapists,
that
I
know,
and
you
know
like,
let's,
let's
heal
together,
you
know
and
there's
people
that
you
know
that
go
to
therapy
they'll
hit
me
up
and
we'll
talk
about
our
session.
So
it's
like
a
community
of
folks
that
you
know
are
engaged
and
you
know
we
just.
We
would
like
to
invite
more
people
to
into
this
lifestyle.
E
To
you
know,
show
people
that
you
know
you
don't
have
to
get
shot
by
a
police
officer
or
you
know,
lose
a
family
member
to
gun
violence
to
to
feel
like
you
need
to
go
to
therapy.
You
know
I
mean
it's
normal
like
I,
I
encourage
people
to
go.
You
know
before
you
know.
Tragedy
strikes
just
that
just
like
now,
I've
been
going
so
long
in
my
sessions,
I'm
talking
about
ideas
that
I
may
have,
and
you
know
using
my
my
my
therapist-
is
as
a
sounding
board
to
figure
out.
E
You
know
what
I
want
him
out
of
life,
you
know
so
so
I'm
not
just
you
know
being
impulsive,
so
I
just
think
that
there
are
huge
benefits
to
normalizing
therapy.
You
know
and
viewing
it
as
like
hygiene
like
going
to
the
gym,
or
you
know,
brushing
your
teeth,
you
know,
and
so
I
just
you
know,
I
invite
all
everybody
to
try
it
out
and
if
they
ever
want
to
talk
talk
about
it
or
you
know,
talk
through
it,
I
go
and
you
know
I
can.
F
Advice,
I
I
concur
with
you
know
everything
that's
been
said
so
far.
You
know,
I
believe
in
therapy,
I'm
I'm
in
therapy
myself.
The
power
of
you
know
having
the
opportunity
to
to
be
vulnerable.
You
know
that
that's
something
that
within
our
community
and
our
spaces,
for
you
know
a
long
time
that
vulnerability
hasn't
always
been
a
cool
thing
and
at
times
it's
been
dangerous
right.
F
So
we
just
have
to
be
realistic
that
that
hasn't
always
been
available
to
us
to
experience
all
of
our
humanity,
and
so
you
know,
I
think
that
allows
that
opportunity
and
another
beautiful
thing.
I
think
about
the
our
stories,
like
the
power
historically
of
what
the
non-traditional
spots
that
you
would
go
to
within
community.
Where
therapy
takes
place
right,
it
may
not
always
be
a
licensed
person,
but
which
is
important
to
go
to
one.
I'm
not
denouncing
that.
F
But
I'm
saying
you
know
from
the
pastor,
you
know
to
the
religious
leader
to
the
hair
salon
the
barbershop,
like
the
mentors
just
the
way
that
we
care
for
one
another.
You
know
one
of
my
favorite
definitions
around
trauma
is,
you
know,
multiple
negative
stressors.
Without
the
resources
to
cope,
so
I
think
about
negative
stressors
and
how
many
negative
stressors
that
you
know
exists
within
many
of
the
members
of
our
community
and
it's
one
thing
to
to
go
through
adversity.
B
B
Many
of
it
is
you're
just
traumatized
right
and
you're
coming
out
of
a
of
a
bad
place,
and
you
were
you
say
this
more
eloquently
than
I
can,
but
if
you
can
kind
of
share
a
little
bit
of
your
thoughts,
I
think
that's
it's
just
so
part.
It
was
so
powerful
to
me.
I
think
it'd
be
powerful.
Other
people
to
hear
absolutely.
E
So
I'll
just
share
from
my
personal
my
perspective
and
lived
experience.
I
remember,
maybe
you
know
two
years
ago
now,
just
being
on
twitter.
There
were
things
that
I
would
see
from.
You
know
bill
peduto
or
you
know,
chief
schubert
and
yeah.
I
would
call
them
racist
right
say
I
don't
care
about
black
people
and
really
voice.
You
know
my
opinion
on
social
media,
and
so
I
had
the
opportunity
not
only
to
leave
pittsburgh
but
also
to
leave
america.
I
was
in
europe
for
about
seven
months.
E
E
I
had
no
idea
what
was
going
on
because
I
just
you
know,
wasn't
aware
of
what
was
happening
with
the
the
movement
here
in
pittsburgh
and
there
was
like
so
many
so
many
new
faces
from
when
I
was
you
know
organizing,
and
so
I
you
know
I
will
ask
around
it
to
see.
You
know
like
what's
happening.
You
know,
and
one
of
the
things
that
you
know
I
kind
of
I
saw
different
solutions
than
they
did
and
when
I
would
reach
out
to
you
know
some
of
the
organizers.
E
I
realized
how
traumatized
they
were,
and
you
know
my
pers
like
I
felt
their
pain.
I
I
understood
the
struggle,
but
me
going
through
therapy
for
so
long.
Helped
me
to
be
a
little
bit
more
objective
in
in
my
leadership,
which
you
know
helped
me
to
to
see
things
from
a
different
perspective
and,
and
so
that
kind
of
you
know
inspired
me
to
talk
to
different
leaders
within
community,
and
you
know
from
young
from
young
leaders
to
older
leaders
when
I
would,
you
know,
try
to
get
different
solutions.
E
I
would
see
I
mean
some
some
leaders.
Would
you
know
what
I
would
say
yeah.
What
are
some
things
that
you
would
love
to
see
happen
in
black
pittsburgh?
What
are
some
solutions?
Some
leaders,
you
know,
will
give
me
scripture
and
I'm
like
yeah,
I'm
not
asking
for
scripture.
I'm
asking
for
solutions
or
some
people
would
say.
Well,
you
know,
I
don't
rock
with
you
know
this
person,
I
don't
rock
with
that
person.
I
don't
trust
that
person,
I'm
saying
yo,
I'm
not
asking
who
you
don't
trust
or
you
don't
like.
E
I'm
asking
you
for
a
solution
and,
and
so
what
I
realized
that
you
know
there
was
so
much
trauma
where
people
couldn't
get
past
their
their.
The
emotionalism
of
that
was
like
that's
really
how
they
felt
and
they
they
had
a
right
to
feel
how
they
felt.
But
you
know,
as
leaders
in
the
community,
you
know
we
have
to
acknowledge
what
you
know
like
what
we
genuinely
feel
on
the
inside
and
then
how
we
can.
You
know,
move
forward
right,
it's
kind
of
like
with
me
now.
E
You
know,
I'm
not
a
you
know,
I'm
not
afraid
to
talk
to
police
officers
right
in
leadership
and
and
and
some
of
those
meetings
I
don't
hear
like.
I
don't
always
hear
what
I
want
to
hear.
I
don't
always
hear
you
know
some
some
officers
saying
that
they
want
things
to
change
like
you
know,
sometimes
I'm
dealing
with
some
people's
honest
perspectives
and
their
blind
spots,
but
the
fact
that
I've
been
going
to
therapy
and
I've
done
the
internal
work.
E
I
don't
have
those
same
triggers,
and
so
when
I
hear
a
blind
spot,
you
know
I'm
not
offended
to
the
point
where
I
want
to
cut
somebody
out.
It's
the
opposite.
You
know
I
leverage
that
moment
as
a
teaching
moment
where
I
can
completely
hear
what
they're
trying
to
say-
and
I
can
you
know,
give
my
perspective
in
a
very
innovative
and
thoughtful
way
to
change
their
perspective
and
even
if
their
perspective
doesn't
change
right.
B
Who
don't
yeah
thanks,
others?
What
what
is
I
you
know?
I
think
leon
started
us
off
so
kind
of
talk
about
your
experience.
We
know
that
trauma
causes
these
effects,
so
I
I
guess
I
want
to
talk.
I
want
you
to
share
what
you
see.
You
know:
what
are
the
effects?
How
how
are
you
seeing
people
behaving
and
acting
out
because
of
their
trauma?
What
are.
D
Have
to
say
this
is
one
of
the
reasons
why
I
love
leon,
ford
and,
and
we
don't
really
know
each
other.
I
think
we
know
of
each
other,
but
I've
been
I've
watched
this
brother
beca
for
for
years,
I've
been
following
his
story
and
just
watching
him
and
the
beauty
of
growth
leon
is
the
beauty
of
growth.
D
There
is
a
darkness
that
covers
you
and
that
darkness
and
that
that
unresolved
stuff,
even
if
people
are
walking
around
smiling
and
we
think,
they're
okay,
it
lives
inside
of
you
and
it
comes
out
in
your
decision
making
it
comes
out
and
how
you're
able
to
have
relationships
with
people.
It
comes
out
in
how
you
see
yourself
and
how
you
see
your
community
and
how
you
see
everything
right.
It
literally
is
like
a
cloud
that
distorts
everything
and,
as
you
begin
to
heal,
you
are
able
to
see
things
differently.
D
You
are
able
to
hear
things
differently.
You
are
able
to
plan
a
path
for
yourself
that
moves
you
further
and
further
away
from
that
trauma
and
those
triggers
without
that
you
are
literally
walking
around
like
a
powder
keg.
There's
there's
this
powder
keg
of
emotion
and
fear,
and
all
of
these
things
that
happen
when
you're,
not
sure
of
what's
going
on
around
you,
but
also
what's
happening
inside
of
your
mind
and
your
heart
and
your
soul.
D
I'm
just
you
know,
I'm
always
I'm
here
to
talk
about
black
folks
like
we're
talking
about
black
pittsburgh.
We
gotta,
you
know
black
healing
is
different
because
there's
so
many
things
that
are
put
before
us
that
have
been
put
before
us
in
our
history
that
hasn't
been
resolved
right,
so
we're
trying
to
heal
our
current
space
and
our
current
condition.
But
it's
really
really
hard
to
do
that
when
we're
not
seeing
a
lot
of
our
trauma
as
black
people
in
this
country
be
resolved
right.
D
So
we,
you
know-
and
I
hear
people
talking
about
covet
and
the
covet
is
worse
for
black
folks
and
of
course
it
is
because
all
of
the
issues
that
we're
faced
these
are
things
that
we've
been
facing
before
anybody
knew
what
cove
it
was.
There's
a
compounded
trauma
that
happens
to
us
there's
a
compounded
trauma
after
trauma
after
trauma
after
trauma
right.
So
every
time
we
think
we
moved
a
little
bit
further
in
this
direction.
Here's
something
else
that's
happening.
We
don't
get
time
to
catch
our
breath.
D
B
C
C
That's
something
that
I
think
there's
a
a
big
opportunity
for
us,
particularly
as
black
folks
at
a
local
level,
because
I
don't
know
if
this
is
the
way
that
y'all
view
it.
But
this
is
how
I
perceived
it
when
covid
happened,
the
pandemic
hit
and
everything
just
kept
moving
a
hundred
miles
an
hour
it.
The
speed
of
life,
maybe
even
picked
up
when
covet
happened.
There
was
no
all
right,
let's
pause
for
a
minute.
Let's
give
people
a
chance
to
to
grieve.
C
Like
tammy
said
we
haven't
even
had
a
chance
to
grieve
all
of
the
loss
in
the
pandemic,
let
alone
all
of
the
the
generational
loss
that
has
compounded
and
we're
still
not
able
to
process
in
the
pandemic.
So
I'm
just
giving
that
context
to
say
when
we
think
about
trauma-informed
care
within
the
black
community.
We
have
to
ask
ourselves
like
how
am
I
giving
people
grace?
How
am
I
giving
myself
grace?
How
am
I
showing
up
in
a
way?
That's
not
combative.
That's
not
defensive!
B
F
Yeah
you
know
again.
I
agree,
I
think,
to
your
to
your
question
around.
You
know
what
what
we're
seeing,
what
I'm
observing
you
know
along
those
lines.
You
know,
I'm
I'm
looking
at
a
city
that
I
love.
You
know
community
members
that
I
love
many
that
I
know
you
know
I
was
directly
impacted
by
covet.
I
was
like
number
seven
in
regards
to
allegheny
county
for
individuals
that
had
it
and
I
had
it
pretty
bad
significantly.
You
know
I
had
pneumonia
on
both
lungs,
like
I
was
pretty
close
to.
F
F
There's
a
level
of
that's
really
therapeutic
about
this
like
leon,
and
I
we
we
oftentimes,
you
know
just
have
late
conversations
where
we're
and
you
know,
what's
beautiful
about
with
leon-
is
that
I
find
he
contributes
to
my
healing
way
more
than
I
think
that
I
contribute
to
his
right,
and
I
think
the
beauty
of
of
when
we
can
move
with
our
authentic
selves
beyond
ego
is
that
it
transcends.
What
can
we
learn
from
the
younger
generation?
F
And
what
can
the
younger
generation
learn
from
the
elders
right
and
what
are
the
external
things
that
are
violent
to
us
on
a
daily
basis
that
are
caught,
that
we
feel
under
attack
about
and
then
what's
the
internal
things
within
our
community
where
we're
causing
harm
to
each
other,
because
both
need
to
be
addressed?
And
what
does
healing
look
like
on
that
on
that
process?
And
so
to
to
the
point
where
we've
been,
we,
like,
you,
said:
there's
we've
already
had
challenges,
we've
already
had
stressors.
F
When
I,
when
I
listen
and
talk
to
the
young
people
now
like
there's
so
much
to
to
gather
and
gain
in
ways
that
they're
finding
outlets
on
their
own,
that
we
don't
always
aren't
always
familiar
with
the
way
they're
using
social
media
to
connect
and
support
one
another.
So,
yes,
we
do
have
very
serious
things
than
to
me
to
need
to
be
addressed,
but
we
also
have
a
story
that
should
really
be
unearthed
in
regards
to
on
a
daily
basis,
like
community
members.
A
So
talk
to
us
a
little
bit
about
how
one
goes
about
getting
the
appropriate
mental
health
support.
It
sounds
as
if
all
of
us,
in
some
form
of
capacity,
could
probably
utilize
it.
But
if
you
all
would
just
maybe
share
with
us
a
little
bit
about
how
someone
could
go
about
getting
mental
health
support.
Also,
if
there's
any
telltale
signs
that
one
may
need
or
could
be
bene
benefit
from
mental
health
support.
C
So
yeah,
so
we're
just
real
easy
folks.
Can
contact
still
smiling
four
one,
two,
five,
three,
two:
nine
four:
five:
eight,
that's
a
text
or
a
call
number
or
they
can
email
us
info
info
at
still
smiling
pgh.org,
and
we
will
help
folks
navigate
that
process.
So
I
want
to
say
something
about
getting
connected
to
a
mental
health
professional,
particularly
when
you're
a
black
person.
The
process
can
be
very
daunting
because
it
is
daunting
right
even
for
me
as
a
licensed
social
worker,
as
somebody
who's
been
in
the
field
every
day.
C
I
have
to
make
sure
I
maintain
my
relationships
with
this
provider
or
this
clinician,
because
people
are
constantly
moving
around
they're.
Changing
policies.
Insurances
are
changing,
so
imagine
being
somebody
for
the
first
time
and
you
want
to
get
connected
to
mental
health
support
and
all
these
different
move-in
pieces
are
getting
in
your
way.
So
we
we
try
to
like
stretch
that
process
out
for
people,
because
what
traditionally
happens
is
it's
like?
Okay,
you
want
a
therapist,
we're
going
to
refer
you
to
one.
C
You
may
or
may
not
get
a
chance
to
vet
that
therapist
and
really
make
a
determination
for
yourself
if
you
even
want
them
to
be
your
therapist.
So
we
try
to
stretch
that
out
and
say:
okay
therapists,
we're
going
to
need
you
to
give
this
this
community
member
opportunity
to
get
to
know
you
right.
If,
with
any
kind
of
relationship
you
got
to
have
trust
you
got
to
get
to
know
somebody
be
especially
before
you
start
telling
them
all
of
your
your
life's
trauma
and
your
pain
and
all
that
and
start
reliving.
That
stuff.
C
C
So
we're
always
doing
our
best
to
try
to
give
that
power
back
to
the
people
to
make
those
choices
for
themselves,
and
I
will
also
add
too
in
terms
of
getting
connected
to
a
resource.
If
you
get
connected
to
a
therapist
and
it
doesn't
work
with
the
first
one.
That's
okay,
you
know
I've
I've
gone
through
five,
six
therapists
over
the
course
of
my
lifetime.
C
Some
of
them.
I
had
really
really
impactful
and
meaningful
relationships
with
others.
I
didn't,
but
sometimes
it
can
be
so
scary
that
we
think.
Okay,
if
I
try
with
one-
and
I
didn't,
have
the
right
kind
of
connection
with
them,
then
I'm
just
not
gonna.
Try
again,
you
know
it
was
much
of
the
same,
so
educating
our
folks
to
know
like
okay,
you
may
have
a
negative
experience
at
some
point
in
time
and
that's
okay.
C
It's
like
shopping
around
for
something
right,
you're,
not
you're,
not
gonna,
buy
the
very
first
car
or
the
very
first
shirt
or
whatever
it
is
like
you're,
going
to
look
at
it
you're
going
to
try
it
on
you're,
going
to
test
drive
it.
If
it's
a
car
like
have
that
same
philosophy
and
approach
when
you're
looking
for
a
therapist,
you
can,
you
can
get
to
know
them
and
if
it
doesn't
work,
you
have
that
right
as
a
client
to
say
you
know
what
this
isn't
working.
I
want
to
find
a
new
therapist.
C
I
guess
the
third
piece
I
would
say
is
that
just
the
acknowledgement
that
it's
okay
to
reach
out
for
help,
I
think,
like
brother
jason,
said
like
we're
still,
we
some
black
people
are
still
in
this
mindset
of.
If
I
ask
for
help,
it's
gonna
be
a
sign
of
weakness.
It's
going
to
show
that
you
know
I
don't.
C
I
don't
have
control
over
my
emotions
over
my
life,
whatever
the
case
may
be,
but
just
getting
to
that
point
where
you're,
like
you
know
what
I'm
going
to
be
open,
I'm
going
to
be
transparent
and
I'm
going
to
ask
for
help.
I
think
that's
that's
that's.
The
most
courageous
thing
in
my
mind
that
anybody
could
do
is
is
ask
for
help.
D
Yeah,
I
love
everything.
Julius
just
said,
and
I
concur.
One
thing
I
want
to
add
is
cultural
competency
in
therapy
is
extremely
important.
You
know
pittsburgh
has
a
very
small
community
of
black
therapists
way
too
small.
We
need
way
more
because
our
folks
are
really
starting
to
recognize
the
value
in
mental
health
services,
and
I
see
a
post
on
facebook
at
least
once
a
week
where
somebody
is
saying
I
want
a
black
therapist,
please,
you
know
refer
a
black
therapist
and
I
see
folks,
you
know,
and
every
time
somebody
makes
that
post.
D
I
pull
up
a
notebook
and
a
pen
out
and
start
writing,
because
it's
it's
a
small
number.
We
have
a
very
small
number
here
and
blackness
is
unique.
There's
there's
a
uniqueness
in
being
black
that
I
think,
is
very
important
for
the
folks
who
are
serving
our
folks
that,
from
a
mental
health
standpoint
understand
that
perspective.
D
D
I
also
want
to
encourage
folks
who
are
you
know
black
folks
who
are
benefiting,
who
are
seeking
therapy
and
who
are
benefiting
from
it
share
your
stories
right.
We,
this
is
not
anything
to
be
embarrassed
or
ashamed
about.
We
have
to
talk
about
our
experiences,
you
know,
and
I
get
a
lot
of
heat,
believe
it
or
not
from
people
who
tell
me
that
I
am
too
transparent
that
I
talk
about
my
experiences
too
much.
It's
not
professional.
D
You
know,
and
I
think
that's
a
bunch
of
nonsense.
I
am
here
to
share
my
experiences
for
one
purpose
and
one
purpose
only,
and
that
is
to
encourage
other
people
who
are
going
through
the
things
that
I've
gone
through,
to
look
at
life
differently,
to
look
at
a
different
perspective,
to
listen
to
my
story
in
hopes
that
they're
going
to
hear
something
that
inspires
and
motivates
them
to
feel
better
and
heal.
That's
it!
So
I
you
know,
I'm
an
open
book.
D
I
tell
people
all
the
time.
I
have
nothing
to
hide
I'm
an
open
book,
but
I
really
want
people
to
think
differently
about
this
mental
health
thing.
It
is
for
one
it's
important
for
our
own
personal
healing.
You
know
our
own
state
of
mind,
but
it's
also
important
for
wealth
building.
It's
important
for
you
know
being
a
voice
in
your
community
and
changing
the
things
that
you
don't
like
in
your
community.
You
can't
help
other
people.
D
If
you
aren't
healed
yourself,
you
can't
see
the
bigger
picture
when
you
are
weighed
down
with
trauma
that
isn't
getting
resolved
healing
is
an
open
door
to
the
next
phase
of
your
life,
and
I
I
strongly
believe
none
of
us
have
to
end
up
where
we
started
right.
But
the
path
to
that
change
is
really
really
from
my
perspective,
rooted
in
our
emotional,
emotional
and
psychological
healing.
B
Little
boy
that
I
know
was
chatting
with,
and
you
know
he
was
having
a
problem
hitting
other
kids
in
the
classroom
in
the
neighborhood.
He
was
just
having
this
problem
and
I
even
saw
him
act
out
and
he's
he's
name
he's
a
little
boy.
You
know
six
seven
eight
and
he
got
angry.
He
started
hyperventilating.
B
He
started
getting
like
angry
like
an
incredible
hawk.
You
know,
and
I'm
like
this
is
really
intense
for
a
little
kid
and
after
a
while,
I
found
out
that
that's
because
he
was
being
beaten
at
home
by
by
his
mom.
You
know
she
was
she
was.
He
was
beating
him
like
a
like
a
man
and
then
he
was
because
he
was
receiving
this
trauma
at
home.
B
He
was
acting
out
and
inflicting
this
hurt
on
other
people
because
he
was
her
and
you
know
I,
I
guess
and
I'd
like
for
you
to
kind
of
start
talking
about
that
leon.
You
know,
that's
what
I
see
I
see.
I
don't
know
if
you
see
that
in
in
the
black
community,
I
see
her
people
hurt
and
then
hurting
other
people,
rather
than
healing
other
people.
They're
still
hurt.
They
act
out
in
and
hurt
other
people.
E
We
don't
learn
in
school
how
to
deal
with
our
emotions,
and
you
know:
if
people
aren't
you
know
receiving
that
love
and
support
at
home,
then
you
know
it
it's
a
it's
a
you
know
a
trigger
effect
where
it
just
it
continues
to
get
worse,
and
you
know,
unfortunately,
that
that
goes
into
communities.
I
mean
brother
jay
and
I
we
we've
had
conversations
with
people.
You
know
a
friend
who's
incarcerated
and
he
shared
his
lived
experience.
E
You
know
and
how
has
left
the
experience
played
out
into
the
decision
that
that
he
made,
and
so
it's
important
for
us-
that's
what
this
is,
why
it's
important
for
us
to
have
these
conversations
right
to
show
people
what
healing
looks
like
and
to
help
them.
You
know
think
about
that
process
in
that
journey.
One
thing
that
that
I
really
think
about
a
lot
is
social
media.
E
You
know
a
lot
of
people
that
they're
so
fast
to
go
on
the
social
media
to
say
how
they
feel,
because
you
know
they
feel
like
they
don't
have
a
voice.
You
know
in
community
or
in
their
families,
and
so
facebook
or
instagram
or
twitter
becomes
their
voice,
which
has
you
know
I
mean
it
can
be
positive
right.
It
can
have
like
a
positive
impact,
but
it
it
also
have
a
negative
impact.
E
You
know,
and
so
I
encourage
people
to
be
very
mindful
and
thoughtful
about
what
they
share
on
social
media,
because
you
know
there
are
some
things,
especially
like
what
community
leadership
right.
There's
some
things
where
you
know
pittsburgh
is
so
small,
especially
black
pittsburgh.
We
are
all
one
degree
of
separation
away
from
somebody.
You
know
I
don't
care
from
the
north,
south,
east
or
west.
You
can
get
somebody's
phone
number
and
call
them.
E
You
know,
and
also
there's
somebody
in
the
middle
who
you
know,
parties
respect
equally,
that
that
can
help
facilitate
you
know
a
conversation,
and
so
I
I
finally
find
it
very
disheartening
when
I
see
leaders
of
of
different
systems
that
can
work
together
coming
at
each
other
on
social
media.
You
know
like,
for
instance,
red
like
I
I
reached
out
to
you
because
of
of
healing
right
it
took
me,
you
know,
going
to
therapy
right
and
me
finding
my
voice
as
a
man
to
say
yo.
E
E
We
we
were
able
to
sit
together
and
and
and
and
build
a
friendship
right,
and
so
you
know,
regardless
of
like
what
happens
on
social
media
and
different
people's
views,
there's
going
to
be
times
with
where
we
don't
agree
right,
and
that
is
okay.
That
doesn't
mean
we
got
to
rip
each
other's
heads
off
right,
because
this
is
what
true
community
building
is
about.
You
know.
Sometimes
I
gotta
check
my
ego.
I
might
feel
some
type
of
way
now
sit
on
it.
E
Instead
of
just
going
on
social
media
and
and
trying
to
rip
somebody
that
looked
like
me,
you
know
rip
their
heads
off
and
you
know
a
lot
of
times
people.
You
know
people
think
they
know
somebody's
full
story
right.
Some
people
think
they
know
my
full
story.
There's
things
about
me
that
people
just
don't
know
right.
There's
certain
triggers
and
blind
spots
that
I
have
that
people
aren't
aware
of
you
know
I
I
had
a.
I
did
a
partnership
with
with
yahoo,
and
during
that
talk
you
know
there
was
a
lot
of
talk.
E
You
know
from
people
from
the
lgbtq
community
and
I
had
to
let
them
know
like
yo.
I
have
blind
spots
so
there's
certain
things
that
y'all
gotta
teach
me.
You
know
what
I'm
saying
like
I
I
don't
even
I
didn't
remember,
pronouns
from
school,
so
when
I
don't
want
to
call
and
everybody's
like
yo,
what's
your
pronoun
and
I'm
like
you
know,
and
I
write
I'm
a
writer,
I'm
like
yo.
What
is
the
pronoun
right?
I
I
don't.
E
I
don't
know
what
to
say
that
doesn't
make
me
a
homophobe,
because
I
don't
acknowledge
your
pronoun.
I
just
don't
know
right,
and
so
there
can
be
an
assumption
that
I
know
these
things.
Where
you
know,
then
people
can
judge
me
based
off
of
how
I
respond
and
then
that's
how
you
know
we
create
this.
These
larger
divides
right
and-
and
you
know,
as
as
leaders,
if
you,
if
you
influence
a
bunch
of
people
right
and
one
of
the
reasons
like
I'm
like
I'll
talk
to
police.
E
You
know
leadership
within
police
leadership
from
the
mayor's
office.
You
know
I
have
friends
who
are
jewish
and
muslims
and
quakers,
I'm
about
building
community,
and
so
even
if
somebody
has
a
different
perspective
than
me,
if
I
know
that
you
know
I'm
leading
a
bunch
of
people
and
they're
meeting
a
bunch
of
people
and
we
want
to
build,
you
know
a
stronger
sense
of
community,
I'm
going
to
have
a
conversation
with
you,
you
know.
E
If
you
watch
old
movies
about
you,
know
different
cut
like
troy,
the
kings
are
talking
to
each
other
right
and
then
you
might
have
their
armies
going
at
it,
but
the
kings
are
going
to
come
together
and
they're
going
to
say
yo.
What's
the
best
thing
for
our
dynasty,
what
are
we
trying
to
build,
and
you
know
I
mean
as
kings
and
queens
of
our
communities,
all
the
petty.
You
know
talk
and
conversations
like
you
know
in
the
gossip.
You
know
I
try
not
to
get
involved
in
that.
E
What
is
the
solution,
and
how
can
we
move
forward
to
solutions?
Even
if
you
know
we
ain't
on
the
same
side
and
whatever,
whatever
the
political
thing
is
going
on?
That's
cool
like
for
the
people
who's
in
politics,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day
we
need
we
need
results
and
to
get
results.
We
got
to
have
relationships
with
everybody.
D
See
again,
another
reason
why
I
love
him
so
much
gentlemen.
I
am
so
sorry.
I
do
have
to
jump
off
because
I
have
to
get
on
another
panel
at
seven,
but
this
amazing
conversation
thank
you
so
much
for
inviting
me.
You
guys
are
in
great
hands
with
these
gentlemen,
and
I
hope
that
I
can
do
it
with
them
again
soon.
Thank
you
for
inviting
me.
It
was
amazing.
D
A
Catapult
and
you're
coming
to
the
hill,
some
I'm
so
blessed
to
have
you
coming
to
the
neighborhood.
Thank
you,
but
circles
specifically
and
even
with
through
catapult,
is
designed
to
help
families
navigate
their
way
out
of
poverty.
So
you
could
give
us
a
one
minute
overview
of
how
a
family
who's
interested
in
your
organization
can
get
engaged.
Please
do
so
absolutely.
D
So,
first
of
all
we
are
now
we
were
formerly
known
as
circles,
greater
pittsburgh,
and
now
we
are
officially
known
as
catapult:
greater
pittsburgh
and
catapult.
Greater
pittsburgh
is
an
organization
that
has
an
extremely
heavy
focus
on
anti-poverty
and
economic
justice,
primarily
for
black
folks.
In
this
city.
D
We
recognize
that
the
inability
or
loss
of
opportunity
to
create
assets
over
past
generations
is
still
impacting
our
families.
So
we
are
extremely
focused
on
one
helping
people
while
they
are
in
crisis
mode
right,
so
addressing
people's
needs,
while
they're
in
crisis,
so
that,
as
those
crises
are
resolved,
they
can
open
their
mind
and
clear
their
mind,
have
an
emotional
and
mental
bandwidth
to
focus
on
wealth
building
initiatives
such
as
homeownership
and
entrepreneurship.
D
So
we
want
all
of
our
folks
to
feel
comfortable
coming
to
us,
no
matter
what
their
current
condition
is,
no
matter
where
they
are.
We
believe
that
every
single
person
has
the
ability
to
move
themselves
into
the
next
phase
of
their
life,
and
we
want
to
be
there
to
support
them
in
that.
So
the
best
way
for
folks
to
contact
us
is
to
check
out
our
website
at.
D
D
A
At
this
point,
micah
smith
has
been
monitoring
the
online
questions,
so
I
want
to
bring
her
on,
but
as
she
gets
ready
to
ask
some
of
the
questions
that
have
been
online,
I
do
have
two
other
quick
questions,
one
I
was
hoping
jason.
You
would
also
do
the
same
and
talk
about
tandem,
ed,
how
you
can
get
involved
with
it,
because
again,
all
of
you
all
are
doing
phenomenal
work.
But
again
these
are
resources
for
our
community.
F
Cool
cool
cool
and
if
and
if
I
could
yield
a
little
portion
of
my
time,
I
think
to
your
question
brother
laville
leon.
There
was
an
exercise
we
did
around
mindfulness
meditation
a
night
when
his
son
was
really
upset
about
something,
and
it
just
was
a
powerful
experience
that
I
think,
like
anybody,
no
matter
where
you
are
and
what
you're
dealing
with
to
do,
what
I
was
able
to
engage
with
him
and
his
son
and
to
your
point
about
children,
it'd
just
be
powerful
leon.
F
If
you
could
share
that
story
with
the
group,
I
know
it
impacted
me
just
watching
you
and
and
and
him
do
it
together
and
in
regards
to
tandem
med.
It's
a
national
organization
that
you
know
we
are
we,
you
know.
So
the
agenda
of
tandemmed
is
to
walk
alongside
black
communities
across
the
country
and
using
the
power
of
media
to
tell
our
stories,
and
so
we
launched
media
campaigns.
F
We
we
piloted
the
program
here
in
pittsburgh
about
six
years
ago,
and
every
city
starts
out
with
a
concept
called
own
your
story
and
that's
where
we
learn
the
power
of
media,
the
power
of
research
and
telling
our
own
stories
and
narrative
building
and
we
were
able
to
create
a
campaign
that
was
titled.
Black
is
pittsburgh
and
it
was
really
under
the
the
concept
that
you
know.
There
is
quality
of
life
for
black
people
in
pittsburgh.
F
You
know
criminality
or
or
athletics,
but
there's
there's
you
know
black
is
not
a
monolith
and
we're
not
only
one
or
two
different
things,
but
there's
multiple
modalities
to
who
we
are,
and
our
children
and
our
community
members
need
and
have
the
right
to
experience
all
of
what
they
desire
to
experience
in
life,
and
I
think
that's
another
stressor
for
us
like
feeling
that
we
need
to
fit
into
somebody's
box.
And
so
you
know
we
do.
We
did
it
here
in
pittsburgh.
F
We're
now
working
in
new
orleans,
detroit
newark,
new
jersey
and
we've
just
launched
some
work
in
jackson,
mississippi.
So
that's
something
that
folks
can
get
involved
in
tandemmed.com
is
the.
Is
the
website
so
encourage
folks
to
engage
there?
We're
actually
going
to
be
relaunching
here
in
pittsburgh?
Again,
circling
back
as
the
you
know,
the
the
founding
city
of
the
work
and
it's
powerful
to
connect
our
communities
across
the
country
where
we
can
build
and
talk
about
our
lived
experiences.
What
is
similar,
what
are
different?
F
You
know,
unfortunately,
I
lost
a
brother
to
gun
violence,
and
so
it's
a
way
for
community
to
come
together
and
have
conversations
about
trauma.
Everything
we've
been
talking
about
today
around
the
sport
that
we
know
people
are
attracted
to
and
the
last
thing
that'll
say
you
know.
So
every
summer
we've
had
the
opportunity
to
do
this
league.
At
the
you
know:
pendley
basketball,
court
in
east
liberty,
the
old
connie,
hawkins,
legendary
connie
hawkins,
which
many
know
by
and
you
know
so.
The
court
is
just
refurbished
again.
F
Community
comes
together
to
participate
but,
like
I
said
it's
all
around
healing
forgiveness,
atonement
and
a
really
powerful
thing
is
that
one
of
the
individuals
that
plays
in
the
league,
you
know
he's
the
younger
brother
of
the
individual
that
was
involved
in
the
situation
that
took
my
brother's
life.
So
you
know
we
we
talk
about
the
degrees
of
separation,
but
with
the
power
you
know,
healing
is
a
everyday
choice.
There's
some
days
I
get
up
and
I
don't
feel
like
healing,
like.
I
don't
feel
like
that
conversation
about
forgiveness.
F
E
Yeah
absolutely
yo,
I
so
I
I
now
I'm
a
certified
guided
meditation
instructor
and
I
meditate
with
my
son,
and
so
I
think
it
was
in
the
summer
time
we
had
like
a
movie
in
the
yard
movie
night
and
my
son
was
upset
at
one
of
my
cousins
who
hit
him
and
I
let
him
I
let
him
cry.
You
know
I
let
him
go
through
his
his.
You
know,
emotions,
but
then
I
was
like
yo,
let's
meditate
and
we
sat
down
in
the
front
yard.
E
It
was
like
it
was
like
midnight,
you
know,
and
brother
jason
was
cleaning
up
the
yard
from
all
the
kids
and
stuff,
and
I
invited
him
to
sit
down
with
us
and
I
had
another
my
little
cousin
with
me,
who
was
seven
at
the
time.
My
son
was
seven
as
well
and
we
meditated
for
about
15
minutes.
You
know
and
it
completely
calmed
him
down.
He
actually
fell
asleep
right.
I
believe
he
fell
asleep
on
my
you
know
he
you
know,
but
you
know
as
a
community.
E
Sometimes
we
just
need
to
breathe.
You
know
that
anger
and
sadness.
Frustration
like
it's.
It's
normal
right
and
I
just
found
the
value
of
breathing,
and
so
even
when
my
son
is
upset,
you
know
I
I'll
put
my
hand
on
his
back
or
the
shoulder
and
say
come
on
breathe
with
me
and
we'll
take
like
10,
deep
breaths
and
he'll
be
calm.
E
G
Yes,
so
we've
had
some
great
engagement,
and
I
think
one
of
the
important
bits
was
talking
about
the
social
determinants
of
mental
health
in
black
communities,
sort
of
community
specific
problems,
and
someone
mentioned
that
the
workforce,
the
president
of
the
workforce
development
system,
will
be
transitioning
to
a
new
role
and
they
wanted
to
spark
conversation
about
the
issues
and
solutions
to
help
black
people
gain
employment,
unemployment
and
not
being
able
to
take
care
of
your
families.
Poverty.
G
C
C
C
So
we're
not
just
saying
we
recognize
that
you
need
mental
health
support,
so
we're
going
to
connect
you
to
a
service,
but
we're
also
saying
we're
going
to
do
that
and
provide
an
employment
opportunity
for
you
to
continue
providing
healing
to
yourself
and
to
other
people
within
your
community
in
your
own
neighborhood.
So.
C
Paying
people
to
to
heal
themselves
and
then
investing
in
them
to
help
other
people
heal.
So
that's
the
whole.
This
whole
idea
of
peer
support
utilizing
people's
lived
experiences
to
the
best
of
their
ability,
and
not
always
thinking
that
we
have
to
rely
on
traditional
systems
of
delivering
mental
health
care,
but
the
health
care
is
within
our
communities.
We
just
have
to
make
the
investment
into
people
to
change
their
emotional
and
economic
situation.
E
So
I
don't
really
have
an
answer
to
this
question.
However,
I've
been
like
looking
around
the
country
for
some
best
practices
to
bring
the
pittsburgh
I'm
working
on
a
few
things
here
that
I
really
can't
you
know
share
right
now,
but
if
anybody
has
ideas-
and
you
know
or
different
solutions
like
let's
talk
about
it,.
B
One
of
the
things-
and
I
I'm
just
trying
to
I
this
is
something
I
talk
a
lot
about
with
the
black
elected
officials
that
what
I've
learned
in
doing
this
work
is
that
everybody's
right,
whatever
they
say,
is
wrong
in
the
black
community-
needs
to
be
solved.
They're
right,
if
you
say
it's
education,
you're
right.
If
you
say
it's
housing,
you're
right,
if
it's
police,
violence
or
you're
right,
if
it's
unemployment,
you're
right,
if
it's
drug
addiction,
you're
right,
what
they're
wrong
about
is
that
no
one
thing
by
itself
is
going
to
change
the
community.
B
You
know
that
is
means,
you
know:
building
400
new
houses
at
the
same
time,
giving
the
kids
extra
tutoring
programs
at
the
same
time,
giving
the
parents
workforce
development
at
the
same
time,
putting
them
close
to
transportation
at
the
same
time,
giving
them
after
school
programming
and
saturday
program
at
the
same
time,
of
giving
them
counseling
and
therapeutic
counseling
at
the
same
time
providing
them
social
recreational
needs,
and
we
have
to
do
all
we
have
to.
We
have
to
consciously
give
families
all
the
things
they
need
at
the
same
time,
because
you
know
that's.
G
Yes,
sorry,
I'm
scrolling
through.
We
have
a
lot
of
a
great
engagement
today.
Something
else
that
has
been
spoken
about
here
and
that
I
know
mr
boatwright
is
passionate
about-
is
how
we
sort
of
come
out
of
our
silos
and
leverage
our
collective
efforts
and
experience
to
have
a
cohesive
movement
for
advancing
black
people
and
mental
health
in
pittsburgh.
G
E
E
You
know,
and
until
you
know,
people
here
within
themselves,
then
it's
going
to
be
hard.
You
know
to
have
this
strong
collective.
You
know
group
of
people
working
on.
You
know
similar
issues
because
you
know
you
might
have
you
know
a
few
leaders
here
and
somebody
over
here,
but
there's
always
that
friction
and-
and
so
I
think
you
know
it's
important-
you
know
for
people
to
you
know
you
know
commit
to
healing
individually
and
collectively
and
as
as
we
do
that
we
can
have
real
conversations
about.
E
E
You
know
experiences
right
that
I
I
couldn't
you
know
dismiss,
and
so
it's
up
to
you
know
those
leaders
to
to
really
to
heal,
because
you
know
until
we
heal
you
know,
we
won't
be
able
to
have
those
conversations
and
an
example
of
that
is
again
me
and
rav
being
able
to
talk.
You
know
there
was
a
time
where
I
felt
a
way.
You
know
toward
him
and
I
would
never
reach
out
right
and
you
know
for
me
going
to
therapy.
E
I
made
a
decision
to
say
yo
like
let
me
reach
out
you
know,
but
let
let
me
get
to
know
his
story.
Let
me
let
me
get
to
know
you
know
what
he's
doing
and
how
can
I
help
him?
You
know
lead
in
the
community
instead
of
you
know,
just
you
know
gossiping
and
you
know
going
on.
You
know
social
media
and
and
tearing
them
apart,
and
that's
that's
what
we
we
do,
there's
so
many
people.
You
know,
and
this
happens
in
other
cities
as
well.
E
When
you
know
we
feel
away,
we
go,
we
go
directly
to
social
media,
and
so
I
challenge
people
you
know
like.
If
you
feel
some
type
of
way
you
know
you
could
still
have.
You
can
still
express
how
you
feel
to
that
person.
You
know,
especially
if
there's
somebody
that
that
you
mutually
respect
that
that
is
that
is
present.
That's
what
we
need
and
that's
what
elders
are
for.
You
know
we
need
that.
You
know
from
a
political
standpoint.
E
We
just
need
to
you
know
we
need
people
who
are
good
at
conflict
resolution.
Maybe
that's
something
brother,
julius,
maybe
that's
something
we
could
work
on
together
and
brother
jay,
just
people
who
are
committed
to
be
building
bridges
and
to
see
both.
You
know
different
groups,
perspectives
and
say
yeah.
Okay,
I
understand
that.
But
how
could
we
work
together
and
that's
what
it's
going
to
take?
Is
we
got
to
acknowledge?
E
You
know
some
pain
points
we
gotta
acknowledge.
You
know
some
different
things
and
then
get
past
it
like
right.
It
wasn't
just
all
sweet
rap
acknowledge
some
things
where
he
was
like.
Yo
like
this
is
what
you
did,
and
this
is
how
I
felt
you
know,
and
I
sat
there
and
I
listened
to
him.
You
know
what
I
mean,
and
that
is
that
is
important
as
we're
building
community.
You
know
and
a
stronger
sense
of
community
here
in
pittsburgh.
E
Absolutely
thank
you
for
that.
So
the
self-care
guy
was
inspired
by
a
friend
who,
like
I
had
several
friends
who
were
asking
like
yo
like
how
do
you?
How
do
you
continue
to
smile
after
everything
you've
been
through
and
I
would
always
say,
self-care
self-care,
and
then
I
had
a
few
friends
that
challenged
me
on
that.
I
said
like
yo.
What
exactly
is
self-care
like?
E
What
does
that
look
like
for
you,
and
so
my
good
friend,
michael
farber,
he
reached
out
to
some
folks
and
we
collaborated
and
they
they
helped
me.
You
know
they
listened
to
me
talking.
I
bring
them
to
them
and
they
helped
me.
I
create
this.
This
handbook,
which
is
literally
like
how
I,
how
I
learned
to
take
care
of
myself
from
reading
and
writing
to
to
meditating
and
even
drinking
water
and
exercising
right
so
it
you
know
it's
just
a
comprehensive
plan
for
people
to
take
care
of.
G
A
Thank
you
very
much.
It
is
about
13
14
after
we
did
promise
to
keep
you
all
for
one
hour.
We
were
grateful
that
you
all
were
willing
to
spend
a
little
more
with
us.
I
would
hopefully
ask
that
you
all
be
willing
to
come
back
and
have
another
conversation
with
us.
I
know
for
myself.
There
were
a
lot
of
conversations
and
questions
that
I
simply
did
not
get
to
because
you
are
very
eloquent
in
your
responses
and
very
informative,
so
you
have
all
have
an
open
invitation
to.
A
Please
join
us
for
another
episode,
but
with
that
being
said,
we
have
reached
our
time
for
today's
show,
and
I
do
want
to
sincerely
thank
our
guest,
starting
with
mr
leon,
ford,
an
activist,
a
writer,
a
change
maker
and
an
entrepreneur
and
just
an
overall
wonderful
person.
The
same
can
be
said
for
mr
julius
boatwright
founder
and
ceo
steele
smalling,
as
well
as
tammy
thompson,
the
executive
director
of
catapult
and
mr
jason,
rivers,
racial
equity
consultant
and
defense
outreach.
A
It
truly
takes
relationships,
as
mr
ford
has
stressed,
to
us
in
coalitions
of
individuals
such
as
you
all,
who
are
willing
to
come
together,
put
differences
aside
and
focus
on
rebuilding
our
community,
and
in
doing
so
we
will
absolutely
build
a
better
black
community
for
all
of
us
and
we'll
do
so
with
our
partners
and
allies,
all
of
which
I
consider
you
all
to
be
so.
Thank
you.
B
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
watching
and
participating
in
this
town
hall
meeting.
Remember
you
can
watch
this
show
on
facebook,
the
city's
youtube
channel
or
the
city's
cable
channel.
A
new
meeting
occurs
every
wednesday
by
working
together,
united
purpose.
We
can
transform
our
city
strengthen
it
for
all
of
its
residents.
Pittsburgh
can
only
be
a
city
for
all
when
it
becomes
a
city
where
black
pittsburgh
matters
good
evening
stay
safe
and
be.