Breaking Chains Building Bonds Family Healing Program
The Breaking Chains Building Bonds Family Healing Program is an intergenerational program that provides ongoing holistic culturally responsive programs and services for families to break cycles of substance misuse, trauma, and incarceration.
It includes both youth and adult programs and services to heal and prevent generational cycles of family trauma and incarceration.
Programs include an 8-week intensive healing/skill building program, a bi-weekly support group, a peer leadership track, monthly Family Wellness events, one-on-one mentoring for youth participants and a summer Outdoor Adventure Camp for youth.
Breaking Chains Building Bonds Family Healing Program
Youth Programs
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Adult Programs
Learn more about the BCBB 8 Week Intensive adult participant experience.
Breaking Chains Building Bonds is an intergenerational program designed for families who have experience with the criminal legal system, prison, or jail.
Initial participation in BCBB begins with an eight-week program where parents and their children will bond and learn new skills through workshops in hip hop, spoken word, art, storytelling, changing perceptions, parenting with PTSD, and mindfulness.
The 8-week program uses art and storytelling to support families in telling the stories that led to their incarceration, learning emotional regulation and healthy coping skills to deal with those experiences and manage stress. The curriculum uses a restorative/transformative justice framework that focuses on repairing the harm and restoring relationships with children and family members affected by the incarceration of the parent or child. Parents identify their values and set goals personal, professional, and parenting goals to begin to rewrite their family story to heal and break the cycle of trauma, substance misuse, and incarceration.
Youth participants learn emotional regulation and healthy coping skills utilizing our Storytellers Project social emotional learning curriculum in workshops facilitated by our youth instructors. For some workshops parents and their children learn skills together through a drum circle, making art, and discussion.
BCBB 8 Week Intensive
