Join STAY RVA as we come together on the third Thursday every month to discuss race and equity.

MASSIVE RESILIENCE

We are honored to be joined by Dr. Ram Bhagat for our STAY Chat this month on Thursday, March 18th at 8 pm ET! Dr. Bhagat is a longtime educator, arts innovator, and peacmaker with more than 30 years of experience as public school teacher. Currently, Dr. Bhagat is the Manager of School Culture and Climate Strategy and is developing a program called Massive Resilience: Transforming Historical Harms in Schools and Communities, which integrates arts based, trauma sensitive, mindfulness based, restorative practices in racially and economically segregated schools. Join us for this month for a discussion with Dr. Ram Bhagat on Massive Resilience.

WATCH

Healing Community with Rhythm | Dr. Ram Bhagat | TEDxRVA

STAY RVA

Supporting Together Area Youth RVA (STAY RVA) is a movement comprised of parents and neighbors who want to help Richmond’s local public schools thrive. We are a positive-minded, solution-oriented, action-based organization. We want you to be a part of STAY… STAY in the city, STAY committed, STAY open-minded. We want to build communities of support around every school and engage in honest conversations about why schools have not had the resources they need. We want to BECOME genuine community members who work to form relationships with all people.

Richmond is a dynamic city loved by many who call it home. We want to encourage people to STAY, put down roots, and get involved in their community by coming together in support of local schools. In order to be a first-class city, we must provide a first-class education for ALL students.

At the heart of who we are as a movement is a LOVE for humanity. There is a foundational belief that TOGETHER we can and should create a better way forward by supporting our local public schools.

What We Believe

• We believe in the power of education and the limitless possibilities and potential for ALL children.
• We know that the expertise and resources necessary to build a world-class school system exist in our community.
• We recognize that racism plays a powerful part in the historic failure of our system to offer opportunity to children of color and that through building relationships in our communities and in our schools we can begin to dismantle the structural racism that continues to plague our community’s school system.
• If a school is not “good enough” for my child then it is not good enough for anyone’s child and we are going to work to make sure that ALL schools are great for ALL of our kids.