Social Emotional Wellness
Our mission is to develop, deliver and model culturally specific holistic mental health and wellness services that reduce physical and mental health biases, leading to healthy lives, strong families and community resilience.
We believe that through transforming our individual trauma, we can each work to eliminate familial and societal violence. In utilizing a trauma-informed and culturally-specific approach, we meet our participants where they are and walk forward together on a path of recovery and understanding one’s self more fully. We are transforming generational and individual trauma and creating healthy families, a sustainable community, and a more just society.
Our workshops include Beyond Trauma, Circle of Security, and Café Para Padres. Each of these workshops act as an entry point into engaging with therapy.
Beyond Trauma
Beyond Trauma is a culturally-responsive initiative committed to preventing and alleviating the impact of generational trauma within the Latina/e community by offering education, awareness, and healing.
Each workshop includes 6-weeks of sessions (12 hours total) of culturally-specific and trauma-informed peer support guided by the Beyond Trauma Program Coordinator. Workshops are available in English and Spanish.
To meet our goal of building a more just and compassionate community, Beyond Trauma workshops are also offered to the greater community, beyond Adelante Mujeres’ participants.
Every Beyond Trauma workshop begins with building a culture of support among participants on the foundation that they are all peers on their journey to heal their trauma. We help them to understand that peer support involves expressing vulnerability, building trust through sharing their stories and experiences, and encouraging one another in their comfort and recovery.
We ensure the physical, psychological, and emotional safety of our participants through training our staff in confidentiality, providing a physical space that promotes safety, establishing ground rules for participation, helping participants to feel comfortable in their choice to participate in all or no parts of the training, and fostering a culture of peer support among all participants.
Beyond Trauma is a culturally-specific program that acknowledges the cultural and historical trauma that impacts our participants. Within the context of helping the Latine community to heal from all forms of trauma, we specifically focus on the cultural and gender-specific trauma that many of our participants face on a daily basis. We also help our participants to feel pride in their cultural and ethnic heritage as a protective mechanism against future microaggressions.
For more information: lhernandez@adelantemujeres.org | 971-330-3297
Circle of Security
Circle of Security is a workshop committed to enhancing parent and caregiver ability to connect with their children.
We know that intimate bonds to other humans allow us to derive strength and enjoyment of life. These bonds start in infancy, but also form in childhood, adolescence, maturity, and old age. Circle of Security is a visual map of attachment used to better understand and meet children’s attachment needs. These workshops help families form stronger bonds and healthier relationships.
Café Para Padres
Café Para Padres is a physically and emotionally safe space for people to talk and listen to each other about issues that matter to them.
Through deep individual self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, participants explore their strengths, learn about Protective Factors, and create strategies based on their own wisdom and experiences to strengthen their families. Topics discussed often include the challenges and victories of raising a family, coping with inequality, improving wellness, or participating in the recovery process of a loved one. Participants leave the cafés inspired, energized and eager to put what they have learned into practice.
Our Clínica Esperanza offers inclusive, compassionate, and comprehensive mental health services to women and families in our community. We believe that mental health is vital to overall wellness, and we are committed to empowering people to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
