How does oppression impact our clients, children, and students? Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji shares more about the impact in the video - The Slow Drip of Oppression.

What are the consequences to youth who experience oppression?

• Experiences of oppression contribute to residential, economic, social, and psychological segregation for Black families and adolescents into environments that promote emotionally inhibiting environments (Lozada et al., 2021).
• Interpersonal discrimination, community-held stereotypes, institutional policies, and structural practices all negatively impact the well-being and development of LatinX immigrants (Torres et al., 2022).

Welcome to the Communiversity!

CRESTSprogram is an online communiversity offering courses that place culture at the center of knowledge acquisition. We provide space for professionals and parents/caretakers to decolonize their thinking as it relates to their work for and with Black people and other persons of color. We have at least one training program that will revolutionize the ways that you intervene with communities of color!

CRESTS-Liberate Credential Course

CRESTS-Liberate is an Emancipatory Research ™ credentialing program designed to inform anyone engaged in research about culturally marginalized communities on how to address the inherent Eurocentrism and bias in conventional research methodologies.

Enroll Now to Decolonize Your Approach to Research!

Pre-Order CRESTS-Achieve Credential Course

Whether you are mental health professional, parent, or educator you can be among the first to emerse yourself in a culture-centered, trauma-informed care professional development program. CRESTS-Achieve is designed to better equip educators, parents, and mental health professionals to promote academic excellence and emotional well-being in Black youth (and other children of color).

CRESTS-Achieve: For Individual Mental Health Professionals

CRESTS-Achieve: For Individual Educators/Parents

Build Your Knowledge and Skills Courses



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Putting the (R)ace in ACES (Parts I & II)

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Black Mothers: Even the Strong Get Weary

5 Africentric Parenting Skills That Correlate to High Academic Achievement

Unseen & Unheard: Rising Suicide Rates Among Black Children

Decolonizing Mental Health Training to Effectively Work with Black Youth

Culture-Centered Mondays

African-centered Counseling Theories

Resiliency in the Midst of Uncertainty

Black Mothers: Intergenerational Trauma, Mental Health, & Resilience (Parts I & II)

Promoting Academic Success in Black Children: Pre-K to H.S. Graduation

Locs, Weaves, and Everything in Between: Black Women/Girls & Emotional Wellness

Your Grief Ain't Like Mine: Addressing the Unique Needs of Black Children

Dispelling the Myth of the Sassy Black Girl: Promoting Healthy Identity Development Among Black Girl

You play a vital role in helping to break the cycle of oppression! CRESTSprograms can help support you on journey by providing foundational knowledge that you can then apply with your children, youth, clients, and/or students. Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji shares more about the impact in the video - The Slow Drip of Oppression.