Remember You Are Medicine
Connecting you with resources to guide you on your path.
Restoring balance to our community and healing our Mother Earth.
Empowering Our Community With Prayerful Intentions
Our Collective Bright Future
Bear Root Resource Center aims to S.H.I.F.T. the narrative to Support, Heal, Inspire, Fulfill, and Transform individual lives and communities in all 4 directions.
Building A Legacy & Dedicated to Our Future 7 Generations
Welcome to Bear Root Resource Center
Bear Roots Resource Center is an Indigenous and Black collaboration, honored as a woman led charitable organization that is dedicated to serving and empowering our community with prayerful intentions, our Executive Leadership Team includes Keri R. Akemi-Hernandez, Executive Director/Founder, and Bency Joseph, Co-Founder, are focused on bringing solutions to protect and transform our most vulnerable communities who are disproportionately impacted by climate change, legacy pollution, and historical disinvestments. Our founders are dedicated to honoring their Ancestral roots and reweaving those traditions into the way we live our lives in this present moment. We are teaching people how to be in relationship with land and connect to their roots. Our innovative programs will shape and shift us into our collective bright future.
Bear Root Resource Center is proud to connect & network acro
We are proud to be a CalNonProfit Member
CalNonprofits members represent the rich diversity of California’s nonprofit sector.
Members range in budget and staff sizes and are located across the state – from Eureka to San Diego, from Modoc to Imperial counties. Their missions are focused on an array of issues: arts, climate change, social justice, food insecurity, housing and homelessness, voting rights, and so much more.
Local & Global Network
Learn + Grow+ Teach
Gather +Connect + Protect
Gather +Connect + Protect
Our Bear Root Resource Center strives to offer an inclusive safe space to gather locally and offer ways to connect to our expanding global network to collaborate with others. We apply Indigenous Epidemiology as a lens to teach traditional knowledge and support the well-being of our community members as a whole person (Mind, Body, Soul), and use this data to empower our community. We developed programs to enrich lives of individuals from all backgrounds to be able to fulfill their full potential. We offer resources for allies and community partners to learn how to be in right relations with BIPOC communities and implement multi-racial equitable agreements to maintain long-term commitments.
Gather +Connect + Protect
Gather +Connect + Protect
Gather +Connect + Protect
We apply Ujima to build and maintain community together through cultural revitalization, restorative justice, regenerative resources for BIPOC multi-racial and Two Spirit LGBTQIA+ communities to thrive. Collaborating with community leaders and creating coalitions to advocate, protect and impact policy to enrich lives of our diverse community. We are guardians for our youth, to nurture stability for our future 7 generations, and we are dedicated to collectively protect all that is sacred in perpetuity, as a legacy to honor the wisdom of our elders, and to those who came before us and made it possible from their efforts.
Our S.H.I.F.T. Programs & Innovative Solutions
"Remember You Are Medicine!"
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Your donation can help us make a difference in the lives of those in need. Every little bit counts! Your donation to Bear Root Resource Center will be directed toward where it is needed the most, unless you specify what program you would like us to apply it to. We thank you in advance for your generous support.