Joy & Healing: Building Systems That Honor Care and Rest Across Generations

The KYS Consulting Group Spring Mental Health Webinar Series equips advocates, clinicians, educators, funders, faith leaders, and small nonprofits with trauma‑informed, culturally rooted strategies to better support Black families in rural North Carolina. This series also introduces our Cultural Safety Pyramid for Black Women: Joy & Healing, a framework that helps organizations move from harm reduction toward belonging, rest, and joy for those most impacted.

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All webinars in this series are free, accessible, and open to everyone.

This series welcomes anyone looking for healing, connection, or community. It is especially supportive of people who care for others, whether in their families, neighborhoods, or workplaces, as well as those who stand with marginalized communities. It is also open to anyone who has experienced trauma, isolation, or systemic barriers.

Together, we’ll explore trauma‑informed, culturally grounded approaches to mental health and collective care in a way that is accessible, relatable, and rooted in community strength.

Upcoming Webinars

Thursday, April 30, 2026

The Weight We Carry: Understanding the Mental Health Impact of Gender‑Based Violence on Black Women

This session centers the lived realities Black women navigate across gender‑based violence (GBV) and under‑resourced, culturally misaligned mental health systems. We name how organizational practices like retaliation, tokenism, tone policing, and confidentiality breaches can compound harm, and we ground participants in the Joy & Healing Cultural Safety Pyramid, a practical tool for building psychological safety, belonging, rest, and agency. We also surface how the “Superwoman” schema masks distress and delays care, and we offer boundary‑setting, rest practices, and everyday organizational shifts that help teams move from unintentional harm toward cultures of healing, accountability, and repair. While the session is relevant to anyone working in the community, it intentionally holds space for the specific experiences of Black women and the systemic conditions that shape their pathways to support.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Explain how GBV and scarce, culturally responsive mental health support create layered harm for Black women.
Identify four organizational practices that undermine psychological safety and contribute to cumulative harm.
Use the Joy & Healing Cultural Safety Pyramid to assess a program and identify two actionable improvements that strengthen belonging and agency.
Practice two everyday organizational shifts that center rest, repair, and cultural safety.

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2026

Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST

Earn 1.5 ASWB CE Credits

Cost: Free

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Behind the Mask: Helping Youth Thrive in a Post‑Pandemic World

The COVID‑19 pandemic reshaped the emotional and mental well‑being of children and adolescents, leaving many young people navigating heightened anxiety, depression, social isolation, and intensified academic and family pressures. This session brings youth voices into conversation with mental health professionals, educators, and community advocates to explore how these challenges continue to show up in homes, schools, and rural communities. Together, we examine trauma‑informed strategies and offer practical approaches that caregivers, educators, faith leaders, and community members can use to help young people reconnect, regulate, and thrive. The discussion also lifts up the literal and metaphorical “masks” youth have worn to cope,and how adults can create environments where those masks can safely come off.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

Describe how the long‑term mental health impacts of COVID‑19 continue to shape the emotional, social, and behavioral well‑being of children and adolescents.
Identify the post‑COVID stressors youth are navigating, including social disconnection, academic pressure, family strain, and shifting community supports.
Apply trauma‑informed strategies that help young people regulate, reconnect, and feel safe in school, home, and community settings.
Integrate youth‑informed approaches and strengthen collaboration among caregivers, educators, advocates, faith leaders, and mental health professionals to expand access to meaningful mental health supports in rural communities.

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Cost: Free

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