S4: Ep 59: Wellness Series: Pt.2 – We Are Worth It!

This month on the Amplify Good podcast, Aria continues her conversation with our guests around wellness. Let’s take a brief look here at the organizations our guests are involved in!

Common Ground Health: Located in Rochester, N.Y., Common Ground is the health research and planning organization for the nine Finger Lakes counties of Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates. But our influence extends well beyond those borders. In recent years, we have provided support for clinical practices and other population health groups across the state. 

Research and analysis are at the heart of community health improvement. Common Ground maintains the region’s most comprehensive collection of health and health care data and provides the expertise needed to make sense of that information. We document trends and measure progress for partners and the region as a whole. We drill down into the data to understand and bring attention to health inequities based on geography, socio-economic status, race and ethnicity.

With a team of more than 35 analysts, clinicians, policy experts, community engagement specialists and other staff, Common Ground has built the capacity needed to spearhead health initiatives. Our collaborative tables allow decision makers, subject matter experts and residents to examine challenges together and develop solutions that work for all stakeholders. Our established reputation for neutrality gives competing organizations a place where they can find common ground and ensures that broader community needs are given a voice.

Ubuntu Village Works: Ubuntu Village Works is an organization dedicated to creating Culturally Responsive healing spaces and helping organizations become more culturally responsive both inward and outward facing.

A community where Black people can be their best selves physically, mentally, emotionally, and Spiritually. They have access to all the resources they need to find, achieve, and maintain their wellness as they define it. All disparities are eliminated, and Black people have unrestricted access to culturally responsive systems, services, and supports.

Mindful Matters: Mindful Matters offers mindful education, counseling and coaching for anyone looking to find more balance, focus and peace in their lives. Mindful Matters offers classes, workshops and guided meditation both locally and internationally. Every program emphasizes a mindful approach through insight, practice and reflection to help people thrive, rather than survive. Whatever life throws your way, you can trust that Mindful Matters has an evidence based mindfulness tool to help you through. Our values of empathy, compassion, education and transformation serve as the foundation for our offerings.

Baddass Bodies By Sean: Baddass Bodies by Sean is not your typical Rochester gym. It’s an exclusive, members only boutique GYM & personal training facility for women, children and their families. All classes are personally instructed by Rochester’s foremost female fitness instructor; Sean Smith, at the only black-woman owned gym in the City of Rochester.

Our members are made up of a diverse group of amazing women, children and their families of all fitness levels and ages. Our gym family is a tight-knit group who know each other well. We support, uplift and care for each other and we roll together outside the gym walls too.

Links: 

https://www.mindfulmatters585.com/

https://www.baddassbodiesbysean.com/

https://www.commongroundhealth.org/

https://ariastrategiesllc.com/amplify-good/podcast-season-3-episode-45-unconditional-love

https://ariastrategiesllc.com/amplify-good/podcast-season-2-episode-36-the-needs-of-the-whole-are-greater-than-any-one-of-us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bell_(physician)

https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/honoring-psychiatrist-carl-bell

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-funchess-ubuntuvillageworks/

https://ubuntuvillageworks.com/

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