At Concrete Rose Coalition, our mission is deeply rooted in the belief that healing and empowerment begin with honoring cultural identities and addressing the unique challenges faced by system-involved and system-impacted individuals and families. We understand the critical junctures of re-entry into society or reunification with loved ones, where support and guidance can make a profound difference.
Our Curriculums
El Joven Noble is a comprehensive healing-centered, indigenous based, youth leadership development program that supports and guides youth through their initial step of a “rites of passage” process while focusing on the prevention of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, relationship violence, gang violence, and school failure. El Joven Noble is a curriculum developed by the National Compadres Network.
El Joven Noble
Girasol
Girasol (Spanish for sunflower) is designed to support educational institutions and community-based organizations goal to develop and implement a culturally based, trauma informed, healing based program for adolescent young women. This promising practice curriculum incorporates a healing informed, culturally responsive philosophy to embrace, engage and assist female youth to face life’s challenges in a healthy, pro-social way. It also focuses on reducing school suspensions and expulsions, increasing academic achievement and school completion and improving health outcomes for youth in general. Girasol is a curriculum developed by the National Compadres Network.
Cara Y Corazon
Cara y Corazón is a culturally based family strengthening/community mobilization program that assists parents and other extended family to raise and teach their children with a positive bicultural base. Parents are given space and skills to acknowledge their current relationship with their children, reconnect with strained relationships, and have a space to process their own baggage and gifts. Cara Y Corazon is a curriculum developed by the National Compadres Network.
Xinachtli
Xinachtli (Nahuatl for germinating seed) is a gender-responsive, culturally-based rites of passage philosophy, process and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience and leadership capacity of Indigenous, Chicana, and Latina cis and trans girls and non-binary youth. The philosophy and curriculum was a response to the spiritual distress experienced by communities of color, reframing a new narrative of transformation healing and advocacy rooted in a gender, racial justice, anti-oppression framework. Based on indigenous principals of the individual’s interconnectedness to the family, the community, and nation.