Service Offerings

3-hour, professionally-led, learning experiences designed for women, men, and special interest group members. These seminars are generally focused on relationship and social issues that appeal to a diverse group of individuals. 

For corporate, medical, legal, human services, and faith-based group members. These experiences are designed to be culturally competent, transformative, and specific to the demonstrated needs of the participants and sponsoring agencies. 

Provide individuals impacted by loss and  trauma, a safe space in which to grieve, and be supported in community with others of similar experience and belief systems. 

The Taking Care of Our Own Project, or TACCO, is an inter-generational, volunteer initiative, designed for a diverse group of senior and elder community residents who could benefit from quality of life enhancement. This project is designed to make a difference by filling in some of the gaps in services seniors experience in the areas of Home Services, Community Services, and Social Interest.

These seniors' and elders' lives will be greatly enhanced because of the involvement of an assigned Friendly Caller Team that augments and enhances already existing services, or provides them where they don't presently exist. Each participant receives a minimum of 3 concrete services provided by their personal Friendly Caller - 2 weekly phone calls , and one home visit each week.

We have all been wounded, and our wounds if left unattended and unhealed, rob us of a free spirit, and those things most central to our happiness and well-being. When we tell our own stories, this becomes good medicine.

This  Mommie Letters  Group,  is a 12-week  learning experience, designed in a group/workshop format, and  facilitated by a Licensed Psychotherapist.   It was created  for Black African Americans and other Black African-identified  Diasporan people,  to have an African centered  paradigm to utilize during  the process of healing  from  historical harm, complex trauma, loss,  grief,  and its impact on the mother-child relationship, partner selection, relationship style, and ways of being.

Staged readings and spoken word performances, have resulted from the Mommie letters group process. This group is ideal for persons with disabilities,  men, women, children/youth, individuals who identify as  SGL/LGBTQI+, seniors, and those  who want to focus on inter-generational healing.

A group facilitated Paint-N-Sip experience led by a Licensed Psychotherapist, for corporate and  special interest groups and community residents. These social settings provide a fun-filled way to express feelings, make creative statements about issues and life experiences on canvas, and  network with like-minded people. 

The event ends with everyone producing and keeping their personal work of art, while leaving with a better understanding of their inner child, the artist.  It can also be an excellent therapeutic and fun experience for children and youth.

Various initiatives and events fall under the category of cultural arts. They are developed and sponsored by Sankofa to function as a culturally competent and relevant way, to  encourage and support healthy identification with  African American, indigenous, and Western cultures, and daily life.  

Visit the site frequently and stay in touch. We will post information about various events and performances on this site. 

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MOMMIE LETTERS  STAGED READING SERIES

See Mommie Letters Trailer on Youtube

This is an 8- week after-school program, that uses photography, audio visual, and spoken word,  as  a safe way to discuss and highlight what is being experienced in the lives of youth.  The  group/workshop experience is used  as a  vehicles to foster increasing levels of self-esteem, improved oratory skills and academic achievement, among  youth.  This project is used as a way to address many unacknowledged, and or, unaddressed issues and life- stressors facing Black children of African descent and youth.

  ISONU is a Yoruba word that signifies a major loss.

The goal of the ISONU community gathering, is to promote healing the  broken relationships that exist between self, and other individuals, groups, communities, and nations as a result of  trauma and  loss.

This is an inter-generational, community concern and  gathering,that allows  for celebrating victories, and healing loss,  It is usually held outdoors during the warmer seasons.  However,  indoor gatherings can be held also, and during any season.

The Gathering is  a celebratory, while at the same time,  therapeutic process. It is designed to function as a wellness tool, bringing diverse members of the community together for a multi-cultural experience, aimed at bridging the gap between individuals and groups who  would not normally gather to share  in  such a vulnerable and personal experience. This is achieved through the successful coming together of people for this event -  the collaborative involvement of families, individuals, allies, community and faith-based organizations, corporate sponsors, elected officials and other stakeholders.  These efforts are solidified through acknowledgement, and  the blending of various multicultural forms of expression-knowing we are all connected through the life experience of loss, and the grief attached to it. 

We host a quarterly Community  Education and Wellness Forum Series entitled "A Call for Action: Strategies and Solutions". These events are made successful through the collective efforts of various individuals, groups, organizations, and faith-based collaborators. Panelists are chosen for participation who demonstrate cultural competence and humility, and have a history of active involvement in constructive change within individuals, families, communities, and systems

Sankofa is proud that its "do-for-self" sustainability efforts have made what we do possible. We do, however, benefit from , and welcome, private, philanthropic, and corporate support, in the form of financial and/or human resources.