Urban Triage Incorporated

Supporting healthy black families workgroup supporting healthy black families (shbf) is an umbrella of workgroups rooted in education that are developed and informed in response to requests from black community members. We employ a comprehensive, strength-based 90 -day model to empower black people to achieve breakthroughs in their lives and health. Our shbf workgroups facilitate critical reflection and evaluation of behaviors to determine if those habits are valuable and help participants replace maladaptive behaviors and practices with those that can lead to empowerment and self-efficacy. Another critical goal of our workgroups is to provide economic empowerment and the skills and tools for community members to be present for themselves, their families, and their communities. Our programming is unique in that we directly and thoroughly unpack the pain and suffering created by racism with the facilitation of trainers who share lived experiences with participants. Trained facilitators and participants are from the same communities, and this collaborative group of similar lived experiences creates connection and community. Connecting a joint group and healing gives community members a sense of social cohesion and unity, fostering trust and resilience among black families. Supporting healthy black agriculture supporting healthy black agriculture is a 90-day leadership workgroup series teaching the basics of growing your own food and the entrepreneurial benefits/opportunities in the agriculture field. Our program includes four components: agriculture and farming, product definition, marketing and distribution, and finally, business strategy and business model development. It consists of tutorials/lectures, hands-on working sessions, and workgroups. In addition to teaching everything from soil to seed to harvest to market, our curriculum will also teach participants about the rich history and contributions of black entrepreneurs to agriculture. In line with our supporting healthy black families, shba participants receive the same psychotherapy, grief counseling, mindfulness, and stress reduction training, access to service providers, psychoeducation, cultural heritage, trauma recovery, mind science, and the post-traumatic slave syndrome curriculum. Specialty crop program the hemp specialty crop program for black entrepreneurs is a comprehensive program designed to educate and support individuals interested in the hemp industry. This program will cover various aspects of hemp cultivation, harvesting, processing, marketing, and business strategy. The program takes place at two locations: our farm, located at the farley center for peace, justice, and sustainability in verona, and our south madison office, located at 2312 s. park street. Classes are held mondays and thursdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and saturdays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Throughout the hemp harvest season. The program will continue until the hemp product is completed, which is expected to be by the end of september. Supporting healthy youth the program combines transformative education and personal and leadership development to provide economic empowerment and the skills and tools for youth to be present for themselves, their families, and their communities. We recognize that youth surviving poverty not only experience worse health but also tend to have less access to the social determinants or conditions that support health and well-being, i.e., healthy food, safe and equitable housing, appropriate education, safe neighborhoods, and freedom from racism and other forms of discrimination. We offer various support services, including advocacy, housing support, small business support, psycho- therapy, and miscellaneous financial support. We help youth and women identify trauma, overcome trauma, expand their awareness of who they are and what they desire, and bring what they want into reality. Three learning areas are studied: cognitive--understanding of racism, brain structure, parenting, child development, and local issues through cognitive learning. Social and emotional learning: trauma recovery, social connectedness, shared values and responsibilities, empathy, solidarity, respect for differences and diversity, and a sense of responsibility for one's future. Behavioral learning: understanding what you want based on what you don't want. Intentionally and deliberately creating experiences to develop new habits and a new reality. Our program teaches individuals to enhance their self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and resilience, improving their mental health and well-being. In addition, it boosts confidence, job satisfaction, and career progression by enhancing new skills, knowledge, and expertise. Individuals unlock their full potential and achieve personal fulfillment by combining personal and professional growth. Co-conspirator workgroup our co-conspirator workgroup is designed to bring about positive, permanent shifts in how we define and understand the depth and breadth of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism in our fight for black lives. Participants experience a sense of unity and social cohesion acquired through new knowledge and a breakdown of personal barriers, decreasing the sense of otherness. By intentionally enrolling people who create and reinforce systems and processes that uphold values that contribute to health disparities, our workgroups are strategically positioned to make substantial, lasting change in the health and finance sectors. Dane county rental support in september 2021, dane county human services and Urban Triage proudly presented our rental support program as part of the dane county core 2.0 collaboration with the city of madison, community action coalition, and tenant resource center. We established a stigma-free call center and in- person drop-in hours for residents outside the city of madison. Supports include rental arrears, forward rent, and security deposits. Unhoused neighbors initiative our initiative is designed to be the initial contact point for many experiencing homelessness and/or housing insecurity in the city of madison and the dane county area. We employ a team of four outreach specialists who go out into the community to locate, identify, and build relationships with those who are experiencing homelessness and/or housing insecurity to engage them for the purpose of providing immediate support, intervention, and connections with other organizations through our partnership with the homeless consortium. Chronic documentation the Urban Triage approach bridges critical services and service delivery gaps by utilizing transformative education and programming to empower and inspire individuals, systems, and community support services. All Urban Triage programming is built on the concept(s) of housing first and rooted in transformative justice. Our concern is always the root cause and compressive outcomes. Our streamlined approach will provide the appropriate housing and services based on the individuals needs and prioritize individuals with severe service needs for the most intensive interventions. We believe that an unhoused individual or households first and primary need is stable housing. Our chronic documentation outreach specialist's primary role is to support individuals who have been homeless for more than 12 months in 3 years. Providing them with advocacy and direct access points for mental health support, aoda support, and permanent housing. Providing intense case management, including housing stability planning. Staff determine program eligibility, gather documentation, link the individual to vital community resources, provide information on emergency shelters in the area, and work with local agencies to provide the most excellent assistance possible for the individual or family to secure permanent housing. Youth homelessness demonstration program: it is an initiative by the us department of housing and Urban development to reduce youth homelessness. The program's objective is to help communities develop and implement a coordinated approach to prevent and end youth homelessness. Urban Triage was charged with providing supportive services to youth between the ages of 17.5 and 24 and access to transitional housing and rapid rehousing units.