We believe in the power of relationships through…
Mentorship and Coaching
Starting at $25/hr
● Creating a mentorship/coaching partnership with families to help provide positive role models who represent the child’s racial/cultural/ethnic identities.
○ Representation matters!
○ Intersection matters!
○ We want to help children own their identities, celebrate and cherish their identities, while fostering skills to help navigate their identity.
○ Building Confidence + Ensuring Comfort= More than A Conqueror!
It takes a ViLLaGE to RAISE each child!
Cross-cultural Conversations
○ Brave Space of Grace/ Judgment Free Zones
■ Creating environments where conversations are facilitated around racial, /ethnic identity and social justice.
○ Sovereign Culture
■ Parents/Caregivers workshops
■ Children/Youth workshops regarding their individual, cultural identity
● Personal cultural identities
● Cultural identities represented in the home
● Intersection of identities
○ Research-based, evidenced-based, and personally lived experiences guide these conversations.
○ The battle of/with cultural self-hatred
■ Lived experiences
■ Cautious conversations
● Ways in which your child may be experiencing self-hatred due to their racial/ethnic makeup.
○ Anti-Blackness
○ Privilege and power
○ Oppression and systemic/structural racism
“I just want to do my part!”-Coach Cortney
Hair care information
○ Hair product exploration
○ Hair regimens/routines
■ Daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly regimens/routines
Hair care practice workshops
Starting at $50/session
○ Parting
○ Braiding
○ Twisting
○ Detangling
○ Stretching for shrinkage
○ Beads, barretts, other hair accessories etc
○ Clipping/cutting split ends
○ Moisture retention
○ Length retention
○ Protective styles
Booking hairstyling/ hair-braiding appointments for children and adults!
● The goal is to educate, empower, and equip individuals, parents, caregivers, families, and communities to care for and celebrate the well-being of each child as it pertains to children with textured hair from African, African American, Bi-racial, Multiracial and other African descent/heritages .
● We want parents and caregivers to bond with their children through the understanding of hair care and its importance to the identity development for individuals of the African diaspora.