Are you Striving to have a Healthy Family?
 The Healthy African American Families Community in Los Angeles, California has developed the following tenets for Healthy Black Families (adapted)
A Healthy Black Family is a unity of people of African Ancestry who:
 Bond together through love, trust, commitment and respect.
Are mutually concerned for each other's welfare, preservation and development (physically, spiritually, economically, mental and socially.)
Work under a spiritual realm, provide unconditional love and have respect for one's headship (leader/leaders) and self.
Commitments include but are not limited to:
Educating members of the group to operate successfully and competently
in society.
Taking responsibility for providing a spiritual foundation
and skills to overcome past oppressions.
Transmitting values that help the group to fully reach its collective
and individual potentials and goals.
Promoting a positive cultural sense of self and reconnect to our powerful cultural roots and practices.
Instilling social skills that transmit
resiliency, mutual respect and support.
Providing protection to insure the safety
of our children and all family members. Successful Families
 Communicate
Encourage each other
Express appreciation
Are Committed
to the family
Share a Religious/spiritual orientation
Connect Socially
Are Able to adapt
Have Clear roles
Spend Time together (Krysan,
Moore and Zill Child Trends 1990)
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