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Children thrive when their families have the support they need. Nurturing and consistent early interactions with caring and present adults lead to foundational early relationships that support children's long term social, emotional, and physical development. Babies in Baytown brings together community and family leaders to help strengthen local resources and systems of support that promote child well-being and family relationships starting at birth.

The Talk-Story presentation will share the Pili Na Ha or Four Connection Framework developed through a community health center in Hawaii and how it has become a guiding framework in urban youth programming in Honolulu. The presentation will share the intentions, impacts and method in which a Hawaiian indigenous framework for health can inspire program activities that center on post-traumatic growth and resiliency. In addition, how do we pass on stories that can heal, evoke and provoke resiliency? We invite you to come, listen and share stories in our brief time together.

As we collectively seek to address the overlapping health, economic, and racial justice crises made more evident by COVID-19, social connections can be a powerful tool for healing and rebuilding. We must address the rising rates of social isolation which have profound impacts on health and well-being. These impacts are felt most acutely by people who are marginalized because of their race, income, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Isolation is also exacerbated by commonly-experienced disruptive events such as changes in a person’s family, home, or employment status. Social

Vicky Coffee, Director of Programs and Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., Executive Director of Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, and Rachel Davis, Executive Director, Prevention Institute, welcome participants to the 2021 Young Minds Matter Virtual Conference.

Join historian Sam Collins for a virtual tour through the Juneteenth Legacy Project in Galveston, Texas.