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| Nirvana Now! Choosing Inner Peace For You |
Nirvana Now!, formally the African American Women’s Coalition, is a grass roots
organization that was founded in 1989. At the time of inception, the primary
purpose of the organization was to conduct crucial research on the African
American woman’s experiences with incest and child sexual abuse. While engaged
in this research, it became obvious that work in the areas of exposing the
prevalence, consequences, and prevention strategies were direly needed.
The name of the organization was changed in 1999 to reflect the inner struggle of
African American women survivors and the consistent message received from
individuals that inner peace was elusive in their lives. It is the organization's belief
that until African American incest and child sexual abuse survivors begin and
complete the journey toward "Nirvana" and the community as a whole addresses
the issues of incest, child sexual abuse, and rape neither survivors, nor the African
American community can be healthy.
Nirvana Now! expanded the breath of services offered by the organization to
included facilitation of survivor Speak OUTs! for women of all backgrounds,
publication of articles, training of professionals and caregivers, and a speaker’s
bureau. Additionally, Nirvana Now!'s founder, CeCe Norwood, is a certified trainer
for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program where she trains parents, caregivers,
daycare providers, teachers and professionals on a variety of child welfare issues
associated with child abuse and neglect. Other types of organizations have
benefited from child welfare theme trainings as well as professional development
learning opportunities.
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