A Better Way, Inc.

Featured Runner: Tatiana Stewart, the Permanency Director at ABW, is participating in the 5K race at the SF Marathon to raise funds for her program. The initiative focuses on providing housing for youth in foster care by recruiting, training, and certifying foster parents. Your sponsorship of Tatiana or any other runner will contribute to offering essential services to children and families in need in the Bay Area. Support Tatiana in reaching her fundraising goal by visiting her dedicated page: https://buff.ly/3Y89HB0 #FosterCareSupport #CommunityOutreach''

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California lawmakers have approved a $1 billion plan aimed at ensuring foster youth have access to enrichment activities like swim classes and after-school sports, specialized therapy when they’re suffering, and help with housing when they leave government custody as young adults.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to Milanfar Law Firm, PC for their generous sponsorship at the GOLD level for our participation in the 2024 SF Marathon. Their support directly impacts programs for children's Mental Health, Parent Advocacy, Family Strengthening, and more. When you sponsor one of our runners, you contribute to these vital initiatives. Visit our page to sponsor our team or scroll down the page to help a specific runner reach their fundraising goal: https://buff.ly/3XJS1vs #SFMarathon #CommunitySupport

Our Board Chair is running 10K to raise funds for A Better Way in the SF Marathon on Sunday, July 28th. Thank you, Bryan! 🏃🏻♂️

A Better Way is attending the Family Focused Treatment Association (FFTA) Annual Conference in Denver. Pictured here: CEO - David Channer, Chief Program Officer - Warner Graham, and Permanency Program Director - Tatiana Stewart. Learn more about the FFTA at https://buff.ly/4cyWwxo.

EBAT owner Tonia Herrero, MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS facilitated an Art Making for Clinician Self-Care and Processing Clinical Work with Clients training for the San Francisco clinical team at A Better Way, Inc. (a non-profit organization serving children in foster care). The training took place at A Better Way's Oakland location in the Fruitvale neighborhood. The arts activities in the training included: -Expressing Emotions with Color and Mark-making as a warm up -Garden As Self As Clinician in oil pastel to identify strengths, goals, and obstacles in our work as clinicians -Sculpting You and a Challenging Case/Client in model magic in order to process transference/countertransference -Mindfulness with Watercolor for letting go and grounding.If you are interested in a similar Arts-Based Clinician Training for your organization, visit https://lnkd.in/gDP8rd6s and send us a message! #ebat #abetterway #oakland #eastbayarttherapy #eastbayarttherapyservices #training #arttherapistsofinstagram #bayarea #bayarearttherapy #oaklandarttherapy

✨ Online Training Announcement ✨ Disability Justice: Confronting Ableism for Child Welfare Professionals With Lyssa Ichikawa & Soerny Cruz Friday, July 12th | 9:15am-1:15pm Online waiting room opens at 9:00am; training starts at 9:15am. 4 CE Credits | No Fee With July being Disability Pride month, we focus this course on understanding the ways we have internalized ableism in our daily lives. Sayings like, “That’s so dumb!” or “Your words are falling on deaf ears” that were seemingly “harmless” land a lot differently today. Cultural shifts in our awareness along with the phenomenon of social media allows people to access diverse perspectives, connect with non-school related learning opportunities, and make connections instantly through time and space. In this workshop, we will examine how ableism has existed and evolved and learn from the work of disabled people who are disability justice advocates. We will spend time in dialogue exploring terminology, shared language, definitions, and identifying the ways that the Social Model of Disability can help us in our work to break cycles of harm and center care and healing. Login to Register* https://buff.ly/3zCBW0Q *To register, please follow the link above and log in to your A Better Way Training account. If you do not yet have an account, please create one to sign up for this course. #DisabilityPride #disabilityawareness #disabilityjustice

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 A Better Way is thrilled to announce that we are participating in the SF Marathon July 27-28th! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Our dedicated team of runners is hitting the pavement to raise funds for our programs that serve Bay Area children and families. The SF Marathon includes a 5K (3.1 miles), 10K (6.2 miles), half (13.1 miles), full (26.2 miles), and ultra (52.4 miles) – there’s a distance for everyone! To sponsor our team - or run with us - visit https://buff.ly/3XJS1vs Join us in making a difference! Your support can help provide essential resources and services to those in need. 🙌 Let’s make this marathon count! 💙 #ABetterWay #SupportBayAreaFamilies #RunForACause #DonateNow