There are a wide variety of definitions and ways in which people understand healing that have medical, spiritual, and indigenous roots. We at NEP believe that healing is a holistic process and journey to restore and experience health and wholeness to one’s mind, body, and spirit.

Affirmative Action in higher education has served as the most effective structural intervention to increase pathways to opportunity and economic mobility for Black and Brown communities for half a century.

Rather than floating or swimming—to wade is actually, “to walk with effort through water or any substance that offers resistance to movement to make one’s way slowly or laboriously; to go forward with effort or difficulty.” To wade, it turns out, is to resist in the face of a powerful force.

We need to listen and respond to what young people are telling us they need now in regards to mental health in schools, and build ecosystems of care that promote the wholeness and wellness of young people and adults in our education systems.