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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Our Statement

CASSY stands firmly as an anti-racist organization. As mental health professionals, we have a responsibility to address and counter racism and discrimination in all its forms. We stand united to actively promote awareness, acceptance, and accountability and do our part to dismantle any existing systems fostering explicit or implicit racism. We will work individually and within our own agency, our schools, and communities to advocate and advance fundamental rights, safety, and respect of all people. We are committed to highlighting areas of needed growth and change and initiating authentic conversations that will contribute to deeper understanding, compassion, and community healing.

Understanding Our Process

Our Commitment

CASSY is committed to the following goals:

Raising awareness, facilitate, and engage in conversations around anti-racism, equality, and social justice throughout CASSY's lifetime to ensure continued dialogue

Providing quality clinical supervision that actively interrogates structural racism and holds space for the candid processing of race, culture, and diversity

Promoting culturally aware service and care to the youth, family, and the community with services that value the inherent dignity and worth of each person

Respecting individual expression to engage and support civil social challenges of unalienable rights and privileges affecting the communities we serve

Four diverse team members putting their fists together to make a cross of solidarity
Educate Yourself

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testimonials

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Mahatma Gandhi

In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.

Angela Davis

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

Rosa Parks

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible."

Maya Angelou

“The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.