Black-ish in Spokane

08/19/2026

Emotional wellness isn’t about being happy all the time. It’s about knowing what you feel, understanding why you feel it, and having healthy ways to move through it.

For adults, emotional wellness can mean better communication, stronger boundaries, healthier relationships, more confidence, and the ability to handle stress without completely shutting down or exploding.

For children, it builds the foundation for everything.

A child who learns how to name their emotions can learn how to regulate them. A child who feels safe expressing themselves is more likely to ask for help. A child who is taught that their feelings matter grows into an adult who knows that they matter.

Emotional wellness helps our kids build:
❤️ Self-esteem and confidence
❤️ Healthy coping skills
❤️ Emotional regulation
❤️ Stronger relationships
❤️ Resilience when life gets hard
❤️ The ability to communicate their needs
❤️ A stronger sense of identity and belonging

And adults need these things too.

Sometimes we’re teaching our children skills we were never taught ourselves. That’s okay. Healing can happen across generations.

This is why Blackish in Spokane puts emotional wellness at the center of so much of what we do. Through Crowned in Confidence, Gentlemen’s Circle, Family Matters, and our community work, we’re creating spaces where people can be seen, heard, supported, and given the tools to understand themselves.

Healthy communities start with emotionally healthy people.

And those skills can change the direction of a whole life. ❤️

08/16/2026

Blackish in Spokane is looking for volunteers! 🖤💛

We need mentors, facilitators, event help, admin support, media support, fundraising help, and more.

All backgrounds are welcome, and we especially encourage Black and Brown adults to volunteer so our youth can see themselves represented in leadership.

Want to be part of the village?

Sign up here:
https://forms.gle/cc2d4FfbuV1qzjzo9

08/16/2026

We’re building more than programs. We’re building a village. 🖤💛

Blackish in Spokane is looking for volunteers who care about the confidence, wellbeing, and future of Black and biracial youth in our community.

We’re looking for mentors, youth group facilitators, event support, admin help, media and content support, fundraising help, and people willing to use their skills behind the scenes.

All backgrounds are welcome. We especially want Black and Brown adults in the room because representation matters. Our kids deserve to see people who look like them showing up, leading, listening, and pouring into them.

If you want to work directly with youth, you must be able to pass a background check. If you can’t, that does NOT mean you can’t help. We still have plenty of ways for you to support the mission.

It takes a village. Come be part of ours. 💛

Volunteer here:
https://forms.gle/cc2d4FfbuV1qzjzo9

08/16/2026

This right here is why Blackish in Spokane exists.

Emotional regulation isn’t just teaching kids how to “calm down.” It’s teaching them how to understand what they feel, communicate when they’re hurt, handle conflict, set boundaries, accept accountability, and move through anger, rejection, racism, grief, and disappointment without destroying themselves or somebody else.

These are LIFE skills.

That’s why emotional wellness is built into Crowned in Confidence and Gentlemen’s Circle.

We want our girls learning confidence, identity, boundaries, self-worth, communication, and how to use their voices.

We want our boys learning emotional intelligence, healthy masculinity, accountability, resilience, and that having emotions does not make them weak.

But children cannot do this work alone.

Community matters too.

Think about what happens when a child grows up in a community that embraces them. People know their name. Adults are happy to see them. Someone notices when they’re struggling. They see people who look like them leading and succeeding. They learn:

You belong here. You matter here. We care what happens to you.

Now think about a child who constantly feels rejected, stereotyped, watched, excluded, or treated like a problem before anyone even knows them.

Eventually, some kids stop trying to belong to a community that keeps telling them they don’t.

Then we wonder why they disconnect.

We cannot ask children to care about their community while giving them every reason to believe their community doesn’t care about them.

That’s part of the mission of Blackish in Spokane: belonging, representation, emotional wellness, accountability, community, and healing.

We’re not trying to raise “perfect” kids. We’re helping raise emotionally equipped young people inside communities that embrace them instead of rejecting them.

Because changing a community isn’t only about changing children.

Sometimes the community has to change how it treats its children too. 🖤

08/15/2026

Come on down to the longest table on post between main and riverside we will be having lunch together from 1-3

08/15/2026

08/12/2026

Spokane’s future must include healing—not just rebuilding.

Whether your home burned down, you had to evacuate, or you spent hours wondering if your family and neighborhood were safe, you were faced with uncertainty. That fear can stay in the body long after the immediate danger has passed.

For Black and biracial families who may already feel isolated or unseen in Spokane, moments of crisis can make that weight feel even heavier. Blackish in Spokane wants our community to know: your fear is valid, your mental health matters, and you do not have to carry this alone.

As Spokane moves forward, let’s build a future rooted in community, connection, and care for everyone.

Healing resources are available here:
❤️ http://fires.hikewithher.com

Check on yourself. Check on your children. Check on your people. We heal together.