What We Offer
Our Goal
Black Boy Joy Consulting LLC seeks to assist in cultivating joy in schools, districts, and in media to build conditions where Black boys can be holistically successful in school and life.
Our Focus Areas
Strengthening School Cultures
Schools must find ways to understand a student’s needs and how their backgrounds, upbringing, culture, and trauma can affect how they learn and behave (Coggshall, Osher, & Colombi, 2013).
Our partnership will provide clients with a school culture assessment to address school and community needs. Partnerships will determine the current state of your community, and work to provide the tools and resources to strengthen school environments.
Media Consultations
It is not just the glut of negative representations that hurt black families; it is also the absence of positive ones. This is even more striking if you consider how consistently news and opinion media advance white families as models of social stability.
(Dixon, 2017).
Our partnership will provide clients with a review of materials to ensure that the depiction of Black boys in their content are accurate and culturally responsible. Our partnership will focus on the interrogation and response to the media's (mis)representations of Black males.
Implementing School-Based Mentorship Programs
School-based mentorship programs are known to increase participant’s feelings and perceptions of self, including their self-worth, and decision making abilities (Curran & Wexler, 2017).
Our partnership will provide clients a framework for a successful mentorship program, and provide a foundation for what aspects and components of a school-based mentorship program are needed in order to improve and strengthen the outcomes of Black boys.
Providing School and Staff Professional Development
Studies have found that racial implicit biases affect the way kindergarten through twelve grade educators see their students and treat them (Westerberg, 2016).
Our partnership will provide schools and districts with sessions to assist with gaining tools and resources on how to support Black boys. Staff members need to be provided an opportunity to discuss their identity, privilege, and cultural competence that will allow them to unpack their personal biases and stereotypes that may negatively impact how they support Black boys.