University of Orange’s Collective Recovery program provides tools for organizations and community leaders to incorporate collective recovery into their existing programming. Collective Recovery is a way for communities to heal from trauma together.
In 2021 our Music City team produced the 6th annual Music City Festival: Dancing in the Streets. This was our largest Music City Festival yet, and a pivotal moment for our team to reflect on and articulate Music City’s analysis, work, and organizing strategy. Here you will find an essay written by Douglas Farrand, Molly …
The Pandemic ThinkTank, with editing assistance from UofO’s Collective Recovery team, have put together a pandemic guide. The guide outlines a community-based approach to pandemic planning in the face of a chronically undermined and underfunded public health system and neglectful political leadership. Download the guide as a free PDF. Watch the first meeting of CDC’s …
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Join UofO’s Collective Recovery Fellow, Dr. Marisela Gomez, for a free 12-week course: “Rebuilding Just Communities = Healing Ourselves”. You can register for the class here, details are below. Title: Rebuilding just communities = healing ourselves Description: This course will instruct participants on mindfulness practices and their effect on ourselves and our work in organizing and working …
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A new essay “What We “Cannot Not Know in America”: 400 Years of Inequality and Seven Sins” written by Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Robert Sember, and Dr. Robert Fullilove is now available for free online. Read it here or below. The 400 Years of Inequality Project was created to call organizations to observe the 400th anniversary of the …
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A celebration of the 400 Years of Inequality coalition, including readings, reflections, and a showcase unveiling two new digital platforms. Register for free online here. About this Event In 1619, the first ships delivering Africans to be sold into bondage arrived in Jamestown, an inciting event in America’s ongoing battle with inequality. 2019 would mark this …
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We were so excited to see the University of Orange’s Music City and Collective Recovery work featured in the blog of the Kresge Foundation! Molly Rose Kaufman and Douglas Farrand wrote about the work UofO’s Music City and Collective Recovery teams have undertaken during the Covid-19 Pandemic. You can read about it below or at …
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Join UofO’s Collective Recovery team as we read “Into the Magic Shop” by James R Doty MD. Reading group is on Monday’s between February 15th and March 8th at 6PM. Register for free on Eventbrite. — Info about the book and how to buy here. Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty …
Join University of Orange’s Collective Recovery team as we dig into Rob Wallace’s new book of essays on the origins of COVID-19, Dead Epidemiologists. Guest speakers will include the author Rob Wallace, and renowned epidemiologists Rod Wallace and Deborah Wallace, in conversations with Molly Rose Kaufman, Robert Sember, and Lesley Rennis from UofO’s Collective Recovery team. …
University of Orange invites you to attend Remembering Rosa: Stories and Songs of People’s Power. Monday December 21st at 6pm.This hour long virtual event features four stories of solidarity and community organizing in Orange NJ alongside song and dance from Ebenezer Baptist Church, Orange Prep Academy, Concepts in Choreography, and local artists Ray Sykes and Joshua …
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University in Exile is a public space for students to meet, interact, and organize. We aim to foster connections between isolated students during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the typical college experience has been disrupted, we want to cultivate connections not just around coping and surviving but around inventing new ways of being together. We’ll be …
