Kim is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the Commonwealth of Virginia with over a decade of experience working alongside at promise youth, families, and communities.

Kim is deeply committed to cross sector collaboration that utilizes an asset based approach to develop strategies which promote community driven solutions to system created problems.

Kim has experience in providing direct clinical services to youth and adults in psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment and community based settings.

Kim specializes in working with cross systems involved youth and young adults, who have experienced and participated in acts of community violence.

In 2019, Kim made the shift upstream and stepped away from direct service to begin working on programmatic, organizational and system changes.

Kim is on a mission to eliminate suffering for black youth, by fighting to eliminate barriers to dreaming, increase youth visibility, and create pathways to opportunities. Kim believes that relationships heal and there is power in empathy, compassion, and kindness.

In this episode, we touch on collective trauma, the importance of community care, evaluating our own role in systems of oppression and privilege, interconnectedness, finding meaning in our grief, and more.

FOLLOW KIM:

INSTA: @dopeblack_socialworker
WEBSITE: www.dopeblacksocialworker.com/
TWITTER: @dopeblack_slwkr

STAY CONNECTED:

INSTA: @trustandthrive
TIKOK:@trustandthrive
TWITTER: @trustandthrive
FACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramont
WEBSITE: www.tara-mont.com
EMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com