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Just Speak, Incorporated

Detroit, Michigan, United States • 1 - 10 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

Just Speak is a trauma-centered advocacy that provides crisis support and resiliency programming for children and youth aged 3 to 17 years. Since 2003, Just Speak has held the survivor story as the connector for a network of trained advocates from a variety of disciplines. We believe that prevention, intervention, and awareness building based in play and creative expression leads to healthy socio-emotional skills, and ultimately, to a life of resiliency.After suffering four years of severe sexual and emotional abuse from her biological father, CEO Brittni Kellom founded Just Speak in 2003 to use her survivor story as a voice for all who have experienced trauma and abuse. Over the years, Just Speak has evolved an organization with programming that includes workshops, training, and public presentations; collaborating with a variety of social and domestic organizations across Southeast Michigan.Our VisionOUR FUTURE goals include providing a sustainable model for resiliency skill building that leads to trauma-informed educational systems throughout the country. Working within schools as well as the community, we hope to build a brick and mortar campus that provides a residential school, community resources, and holistic wraparound support that meets the needs of young people who have experienced trauma and abuse and their families.Our MissionBringing a mix of play and researched interventions alive, Just Speak empowers young people with resiliency skills, building trauma-informed schools and healthier communities.Core Values` We believe that when youth find their own voice they can advocate for themselves and others.` We believe that youth are agents for positive change in their community.` We believe that every youth has a right to a safe space.` We believe that youth can reinvent themselves in the face of trauma in a way that both builds skills and celebrates life.` We believe that survivors are lighthouses whose stories shatter silence and serve as universal messages of strength.` We believe in a world where youth can still believe they are magic-makers and superheroes while reshaping whom they will become.