That means you are in a place where it’s safe to talk about mental health. Email me at cfire2019@gmail. com. • Become a Representative. Our Black female marketing guru, Sarah Oyibo, got us ready with presentations for any group you want to help better understand mental health illness impact in our community - youth, their parents, men, women, seniors, and LGBTQ. All you have to have is the heart to want to bring the info, we’ll give you the info! Just click here: Become a Rep • Do you just wanna learn more about all this first?? No problem, Beloved. Click here to just browse at your own pace in privacy: #BacktheBlack 2. I am available to engage in consulting work with organizations who realize they are Centers of Trust and want to make sure they are equipped to help our sisters during and after DV. I am also available to engage in consulting work with organizations who realize they should be serving Black women but aren’t OR should be serving Black women better related to DV or other crises. Click here and choose “Book Courageous Trainings”. 3. Who is your next keynote or motivational speaker? Beloved, the reason why organizations bring me in to motivate and train is because I have an ability to take my audiences on a journey with me in a way that fully engages them while utilizing my message and each of them to teach and motivate one another. People continue to talk about not having been the same since spending time with me. Watch cfirellc.com/home this year to find out whether your desired date is available on the events calendar. To book me as a speaker for your next event, click here. 4. CFire LLC social media update - to keep updated on what we’re up to you’ll need Facebook, IG, and YouTube! Follow us there. 5. Courageous Access, our new non-profit 501(c)3, is now 2 years old and just got a new GRANT! The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services is funding me to provide the Youth Healthy Relationships program specifically for our Black girls who have criminal charges in the juvenile court services in Iowa!!! Please email me at courageousaccess@gmail.com if you want to provide me with access to these young ladies! We will be able to serve 5 groups of 10 girls each between July 2023 - June 2024! 6. Our nonprofit is the expansion of how we change the narrative with a mission to provide holistic supportive services to Black female descendants of slaves who have experienced domestic and or intimate partner violence and the children they are raising; promoting pathways of healing through self-reliance and healthy legacy. There are 2 ways you can support this important work when you go to our Get Involved link on the website: • We are rounding out our Board of Directors this year! We have 2 officer positions that are still open for interviews - treasurer and vice president - as well non-officer director positions that still are open for interviews. You can find the link to learn more right here: Opportunities. • Make a donation! We thank those who participated in my Facebook quick-hit fundraiser during my birthday month in 2022. You are welcome to make your tax-deductible donation right here: Donate. Email us for recurring donation or corporate sponsorship opportunities at courageousaccess@gmail.com. 7. Our newest program, Youth Healthy Relationships in partnership with Eleven24, just ended April 2023! How did it go? Check it out right here: YHR 2023 Survey. Who is eligible for the last one in 2023? Middle/high school youth of color, preferably Black women DV survivors. How do they sign up for the waiting list for the next class? Click here: Link 8. We finished our most recent cohort of Empowerment through the Arts™ in June 2023! We’re always so excited to do this! This program helps Black women DV survivors learn how not to repeat being taken in by predatory relationships, including intimate partners. Learn more and sign up here to get your spot in the next class in 2024: Link. 9. In a relationship? Make sure it’s healthy: Healthy Relationship Wheel Illustration. Or go to TheHotline.org, or Phone: 800-799-7233 10. In an abusive relationship? • Call us to get connected to a Community Safe Space to begin safety planning, 515-428-0077 • At the Community Safe Space, talk to The Hotline.org to commence safety planning • At the Community Safe Space, take a look at types of abuse, including sexual coercion, at Tools for Us Endnotes 1. Taken from HelpGuide.org article 2. Physiological definition for response 3. Definition of loss 4. Shame definition 5. Self blame definition 6. Loneliness definition 7. Desperation definition 8. Anger definition 9. Sadness definition 10. Hoovering definition 11. Taken from abuseandrelationships.org article entitled Escalation 12. Article from VeryWellMind.com 13. Taken from danger assessment from WomensLaw.org 14. Taken from Iowa Violent Death Reporting System from Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (IHHS) 15. Taken from the National Prevention Toolkit on DV for Medical Professionals 16. Compassion fatigue definition 17. Directory location on #BacktheBlack website 18. #BacktheBlack website 13
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