Family resilience Archives

See you in my Dreams: How Spirituality Helps my Grandfather deal with Death

July 14, 2022 Tyla Brown

Tyla Brown shares how her grandfather coped with the death of his brother.

July 26 Resilience

July 26, 2020 Iris Crawford

Story of recovery from fire.

How Oakland families are adjusting to the shelter-in-place

April 15, 2020 Amelah El-Amin

Oakland families are adjusting differently to the COVID-19 related shelter-in-place order. Amelah El-Amin profiles different families in East and West Oakland.

An African American family (man, woman, and toddler) smile at the camera in a selfie photo.

Finding Hope, Resources During the Housing Crisis in the Bay Area

March 24, 2020 Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross

Editor’s Note: Aqueila M. Lewis-Ross is an Oakland Voices Alumna correspondent who participated in the 2015-2016 cohort. Lewis, who previously lived in Oakland for 12 years, has struggled with being unhoused and is not alone.

A young indigenous woman with her hair in a bun speaks in a microphone at a well-lit room. A sign behind her says "What Does Wellness Feel Like?"

New East Oakland Grocery Co-op Looking for Founding Members

March 3, 2020 Patricia Contreras-Flores

A new grocery cooperative in East Oakland is recruiting up to eight founding cohort members by May, who will then go through a 12-week training over the summer to become the first group of worker-owners in

Zarinah El-Amin Majied: Breaking the Chains of Intergenerational Trauma

January 27, 2020 Amelah El-Amin

“Growing up as an only child though I had four siblings was very lonely”, Zarinah El-Amin Majied conveyed as she recalled her childhood. Her mother, who left Zarinah’s older siblings Annie Pearl and Roosevelt in

Flores flowering in gratitude

July 27, 2018 Patricia Contreras-Flores

Recently in the midst of so much heaviness on all fronts, I went looking for some hope. I returned to poetry, my first written love form. I stumbled upon a poem that my former student

Eastmont Town Center Has You Covered! Part II

June 5, 2018 Tonya Shipp

I’m sure that you received the message in part one that everything you need for sustainability can be found at Eastmont TC. Your problem with or question about food, money, clothing, housing, medical/dental/mental health or

Fret Nothing, Eastmont Town Center Has You Covered

May 3, 2018 Tonya Shipp

Eastmont Town Center, located on 73rd and Bancroft, is a hub for all one’s needs or, at least a big stepping stone. Firstly, on the first floor you will find the Self-Sufficiency Center, known as

Strengthened by ICE

April 26, 2018 Ryan Barba

One’s journey through grade school is supposed to be a time that builds children into young adults with the opportunity of a brighter future. But in today’s American society, it appears to be anything but