Corey Best
Minig For Gold, LLC Founder & Community Curator
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Corey B. Best is foremost, a dedicated father, and the founder of Mining For Gold. He is originally from Washington, DC and now resides in Florida. This is where Corey began his transformation into adaptive leadership training, systems building, authentic family engagement, racial justice, promoting protective factors, and highlighting “good enough parenting” for those impacted by the child welfare system.
Mining For Gold is the curator of community experiences and utilizes those ideas and expertise to shape new thinking within complex systems. Corey has utilized his platform as a Community Curator to re-build child and family serving systems that are responsive to sharing power among constituents with a laser focus on preventing and dismantling all forms of racism. The idea began with the fact that each one of us have pieces of metaphorical “gold” flowing through our souls. This idea for Mining For Gold is directly influenced by the 403 plus years of racialized arrangement in our communities. The Mining For Gold movement of longing for justice, liberation, and belonging is rooted in thinking culturally, not strategically.
In partnership with child welfare leaders, communities and parents, Corey has curated the racially just and equitable Authentic Family Engagement and Strengthening Approach. Since May 2020, Mining For Gold has held a brave container to explore the impact of racialization with over 1,500 child and family serving leaders and staff. Corey was awarded the 2021 Champion for Children’s Award in Advancing Equity, the 2022 Outstanding Service in the Advancement of Cultural Competency in Child Maltreatment Prevention and Intervention award and was recognized as a 2022 Breakout Star by Evolve Strategy Group.
Mining For Gold is a platform where leaders from social institutions think, stretch, and grow alongside other leaders within their communities who have experienced systems of oppression first-hand. The design is to curate and magnify what is working within collective spheres of influences.
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Justice, Liberation, and Belonging is Prevention!
This experience is fueled by the assumption that participants will have the capacity to nurture freedom dreams and come together to embrace what we are called to do in our “aftertimes.” Each generation has a legacy of healers, organizers and ancestors that have paved a way to ensure that our collective humanity is actualized. We will welcome participants with…”Kasserian Ingera?” We will hold the weight of the charges that hold change, listen, reflect, notice, pause, engage in truth-telling.
Together, we will grapple with ways to infuse “family integrity” and abolitionist thinking into the work of cultivating approaches, practices and behaviors that embody what we know prevention needs to mean for families—justice. We invite you to embrace JUSTICE as an acknowledgement of one’s humanness. Proactively pursuing healing systematic harm, while repairing fractured relationships from the past, equity of voice and personhood.
As you enter this container, we ask that you consider removing “what we can’t do” from your vocabulary. We also ask that you remove the “What abouts?” from your memory. To challenge us to be BIG in our quest to think culturally versus strategically, we will walk you through a nuanced way of understanding what the principled struggle for “justice doing” looks like in public. We invite you to dream accountability and bravery as we embrace an immersive container that aims for impact over outcome.
Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of:
• What abolition, justice, liberation and belonging mean for growing the way for our work ahead.
• The essence of gold mining.
• The ingredients for belonging.
• Where to make impact vs. how to make impact.
• Strategizing with history.
• Truth and reconciliation.
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