With support from the California Arts Council Bounce Back Generation (BBG) will lead peer and youth media artists to create audio and video arts highlighting community resilience through storytelling about the pandemic, as told “by the community, for the community” through our 6 Building Blocks for Resilience tool.
Bounce Back Generation provides community learning, support spaces, and peer leadership to learn about and address the impacts of toxic stress and trauma on historically oppressed communities throughout the Bay Area and California. Our website bbgtv.org, and our YouTube channel @bbgtvorg, and local installations and viewings, display our artists’ videos, graphic designs, and podcast created “by the community, for the community”. Our Peer youth and adults are hired by BBG to to tell their own, and their community’s, stories about how racism, poverty, systemic inequities, immigration status, and generational trauma affect them. Their content provides videos, mini-documentaries, learning opportunities, presentations, and social media content to show how they are overcoming stigmas and stereotypes about mental health and self care. The artists use the BBG 6 Building Blocks for Resilience to show how we can bounce back, with awareness, self-care, and coping tools to create community resilience and “people, places, and practices” that support resilience into the next generations.

