Consultations
Offering Individual and Organizational consultations to individuals, schools, and organizations on how to move their places of work from being organized by trauma to being healthy places of operation for their staff and the communities they serve that are culturally accountable.
Railroad Group Sessions
Various group sessions for children and youth of color ages 12-21, who are struggling with racial identity, self-esteem, or finding their footing in this current political climate.
Didactic/Lecture/Teaching Engagements
The Black Railroad offers lecture/teaching engagements. Areas include:
Working with children and youth of color that have experienced various forms of trauma
The over-diagnosis of ODD in Black children
Queer Identity development
The impacts of social media (read: Violent and Traumatic content) and Mental Health
Clinical Services
Individual therapy
Clinical Service Areas’s include: Interpersonal and Community Violence, other forms of traumatic experiences, adolescents and transitional age youth of color, adults, couples, foster youth, queer identity development, substance use
VBD Presentation
Viral videos of Black people, usually Black men, being murdered at the hands of law enforcement have become commonly shared, posted, and played across various social media platforms. The purpose of this research was to explore the psychological impacts of exposure to Viral Black Death, feelings of connectedness to racial identities on ten Black women between the ages of 18-30. This research sought to understand the function of Black women’s racial identities when exposed to viral Black Death. Since most of the research in this area focuses on Black men, the research set out to look specifically at Black women and how they were being impacted by conducting in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis was used to code and analyze the data set. This presentation is an overview, explanation, and discussion of the impacts of VBD on Black women and overall implications.
STPP
A year long consultation contract aimed at interrupting the school to prison pipeline that funnels children out of school settings and into the criminal justice system. Dr. Jacobs works closely with school staff, administration, and children flagged for “behavioral difficulties” over the course of the school year to reorganize the system to flow in manageable, healthy ways. Strives to decrease staff burn out, assessments of resources and disciplinary actions, as well as providing a year long pipeline group with the identified students.
This package includes:
Year long clinical group with students flagged for behavioral difficulties
Year long staff trainings
year long administrative consultations, trainings, check-ins, systems check