Nepantlah 2024-2025
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
This introductory workshop is intended to help our families begin to examine and define Chancla Culture. When we say “Chancla Culture,” we aren’t just referring to corporal punishment. We mean the normalization of harmful and power-over parenting strategies in Latinx/Chicanx homes. We will uncover the roots of Chancla Culture, the many ways it manifests, explore and discuss social & systemic factors that contribute to its prevalence, and give guidance on how we can move towards healthier parenting practices for our familias. The movement to #EndChanclaCulture will take all of us doing our part to unlearn the legacy of physical, psychological, and emotional violence that has impacted our familias for generations. This workshop is our invitatoin to begin breaking those cycles.
Learning Objective 1 Understand the historical, cultural, and social context behind how certain harmful practices developed among the Latinx community
Learning Objective 2 Define “Chancla Culture” and reflect on the ways we might have witnessed #ChanclaCulture manifest in our familias, as children and adults
Learning Objective 3 Examine how children are developmentally impacted by parenting practices that have been historically adapted and normalized within the Latinx community
BIO
Leslie Priscilla is a first generation non-Black Chicana mother to three bicultural children. She is a descendant of Indigenous Tarahumara Rarámuri and Spanish lineages who has resided on occupied Tongva and Acjachemen land, also known as Orange County, CA, all of her life. Leslie shares her medicine by offering coaching, workshops, support and advocacy for Latinx/Chicanx families locally, nationally, and internationally both in-person and online via the Latinx Parenting organization. She founded this bilingual organization and movement intentionally rooted in children's rights, social and racial justice, the individual and collective practice of nonviolence and reparenting, intergenerational and ancestral healing, cultural sustenance, and the active decolonization of oppressive practices in our families.
Formerly an early childhood teacher and 1:1 behavioral coach, Leslie has worked with children and families for over 14 years. She has a dual degree in Child Development & Family Studies as well as Family Life Education from CSULB, and attended the Masters in Social Work program at Cal State Fullerton before pausing to focus on her babies and the Latinx Parenting movement. She is trained as a facilitator in various parent education curricula including Trauma-Informed Nonviolent Parenting, Positive Discipline, Supporting Fatherhood Involvement (SFI), Community Parent Education (C.O.P.E) and others. She has facilitated groups in both Spanish and English for hundreds of parents in schools, transitional homes, teen shelters, drug rehabilitation centers, and family resource centers throughout Orange County, CA.
Over the years, Leslie has long worked within mental health agencies in positions serving as Interim Director of Parent Education for the Child Abuse Prevention Center in Orange County, Youth & Professional Programs Manager for NAMI Orange County, and as a Consultant for the Dads Matter Program of Children's Bureau.