Healing Justice Foundation

Healing Programs: In 2023, through the support of foundations and individual donors, HJF offered the following services: From Hollering To Healing: Provides financial and educational resources to Black individuals and families to work toward healing and is grounded in the principles of mutual aid. HJF Liberatory Emergency Grant: Provides support for individuals and organizations that are committed to healing justice in practice and theory, centers Black joy and liberation and works in collaboration with families and communities impacted by systematic racism and capitalism. Black Girls Heal Grant: Provides black women support for healing as an expression of "liberatory political practice". This framework is central to our foundation. These funds address the reality of Black women's trauma and recovery from being socialized to assume the role as the omnipotent caregiver. They provide education to the community around healthy eating, conscious movement, and emotional liberation. This year we continued our support to the PlaySistahs teams for PUSH Triathlon, enabling 35 Black women to walk, run, and swim throughout the year. The Mapping Black Joy Project, Phase 1 is an extension of the community recommendations and requests from the Time of Reckoning Community Forums, particularly around healing and exploring Mapping Black Joy. This is an ecosystem project that identifies and maps places, spaces, faces of community and cultural healing, and Black mental health that maintains, restores, and invites Black Joy. Two major sub-programs emerged from this phase: the Healing Justice Launch that offered the community a space to come together for a time of healing and restoration and the Black Joy Radical Self Care Grants to organizations and healers, enabling them to offer complimentary or discounted individual and community healing sessions to the Black community members, so they can heal from grief, stress, anxiety, and fear. These programs provided approximately 500 Black individuals and organizations working with the community with the necessary resources to extend their support or determine their own healing journeys. This was not about prescribing what should be done, but letting the wisdom of individuals and communities determine what was needed.