ONS Podcast - Episode 31 - Irreducible Grace Foundation Black Youth Healing Arts Center
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Introduction to Office of Neighborhood Safety (ONS) podcast
Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF) mission and origins
Founding of the Black Youth Healing Arts Center
Trauma-informed care and stress management for youth
Intergenerational healing and community mentorship
The role of arts, gardening, and athletics in rehabilitation
Impact of systemic and generational trauma on youth
Self-care practices as a component of community safety
Notable Quotes (3)
The city of St. Paul is working to rehabilitate, intervene, and provide safer neighborhoods.
Public SafetyClosing remarks for the podcast.
If you could create something new and different that would help you, what would that organization do? And they said, 'It would help us to have folks listen to our experiences.'
Youth AdvocacyDescribing the initial session with foster youth.
It can also become a legacy of sort if you hold trauma in your body when you have children. Science has demonstrated that there's epigenetics.
Healing ModalitiesExplaining the inheritance of trauma.
People (4)
Lana JacobsonHost
Represents the St. Paul Office of Neighborhood Safety.
Dr. Darlene Fry (Dr. D)Founder
Former educator and St. Paul public school administrator who founded IGF.
Jan MandelStaff Member
Helped the original foster care youth group create a play called 'Fostering Voice'.
DZ SmithPoet
Internationally known poet and Minnesota author of poetry who teaches at the center.
Places Mentioned
643 Virginia Street, Frogtown, St. PaulCamper Memorial United Methodist ChurchUniversity of St. ThomasChicago, ILWisconsinRamsey County
Events & Meetings (2)
- Self-care Sundays (twice monthly)
- Black Youth Healing Arts Center program schedule (ongoing)