About Us
Ellery Graves
Certified Professional Coach (CPC), Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)
Ellery is a Healing-Centered Coach and Trainer led by her extensive experience in the non-profit sector supporting job seekers impacted by the justice system and those most affected by economic inequity. Through her various roles at the Oakland Private Industry Council (PIC) and other Oakland-based non-profits, she has supported over 400 job seekers in securing livable wage employment and career advancement, housing stability and growth aligned with purpose.
Meeting each person where they’re at, for who they are and who they are becoming, she invites a space to ground in what’s most important and center each person’s unique gifts and power to enact the change in their life toward their vision. She uses the same principles in her trainings, supporting organizations to not only meet funding requirements and deliverables, but root in their mission and build on the strengths of the organization and team members within it to amplify the impact in the community. She has co-facilitated trainings with local non-profits and government entities, including the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) and Alameda County.
In addition to her work in the social services field, she dedicates her time to supporting movement leaders in Anti-Racism and Collective Liberation through facilitating and participating in programs of racial, cultural and ancestral healing. She co-hosts a podcast that focuses on topics of reparations, generational healing and atonement. She is the founder of a Healing-Centered Coaching practice for anti-racist organizers, artists, community activists and culture shifters.
Kevin Grant
City of Oakland, Dept. of Violence Prevention
System Partners Liaison, Violence Interrupter and Lead Trainer, & Motivational Speaker
Kevin Grant is a nationally renowned expert in street outreach, violence mediation, prisoner re-entry, and employment programs aimed at helping youth and young adults find alternatives to violence and crime. He has thirty years of experience working with at-risk youth and the formerly incarcerated in the San Francisco Bay Area and has literally touched thousands of lives.
Over the past thirty years, Kevin provides classes as a consultant via Kevin Grant Consulting, to juvenile’s offenders confined at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center, youth at Camp Sweeny (a juvenile detention camp) and to many high control juvenile probationers in Alameda County. He has also provided similar services for the California State Parole Office.
Kevin is the Violence Prevention Systems Partner Coordinator and Primary Trainer for the City of Oakland, California since 2006. He leads skilled Violence Interrupter teams who are made up of members of the community. The V.I. teams attempt to stop violence before it happens. The teams walk the streets of Oakland's neighborhoods plagued by crime. Trusted in the community, the street teams listen and assess issues, mediate potentially violent situations and connect individuals to needed resources. This community approach has resulted in fewer incidents of assault and battery and other violent crimes.
Recognized as a national expert, Kevin also provides workshops, consultation and trainings for law enforcement agencies, community service providers and school districts at local, state and federal levels. Workshop topics include: how to work with network involved youth; best practices in implementing a street violence interruption program; job training and employment for hard to serve youth and young adults among many others.
Kevin is the winner of the 2013 California Wellness Peace Prize, a prestigious honor in the field of violence prevention. He also was honored as a Hometown Hero by Comcast and the Bay Area News Group in 2010 and received the Oakland Citizen Humanitarian Award in 2009. Kevin is a sought after motivational speaker, trainer and conference panelist. Despite these wider opportunities to share what he has learned over the years and manage citywide projects, he still rarely turns away individuals or “loved ones” seeking out his help. For Kevin, saving youth from the streets is not just a career, it is a calling.
ABC 7 News Special: Kevin.
In the News
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/oakland-ex-criminal-aims-to-broker-peace-4145606.php
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/reformed-oakland-criminal-honored-for-good-work/1936484/
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