Beginning next school year, California’s Santa Barbara Unified School District will make “healing and affirmation” for black students “as accessible as school lunch.”
This is due to the district working with the UC Santa Barbara Healing Space clinic. According to its website, Healing Space “provide[s] a therapy space to address racial trauma and foster resilience” for black students and residents.
“The collective toll of racism on Black Americans in the US is widespread,” the clinic’s site reads. “This ranges from police brutality to mass incarceration to the school-to-prison pipeline and in today’s world, ongoing discrimination in the US healthcare system related to COVID-19.”