L.U.M.I.
Leading Urban Minds Intentionally
Youth Wellness & Development • A Branch of Roots of Healing Wellness
Healthy minds.
Limitless possibilities.
Meaningful experiences that help young people explore, create, connect, and grow well.
Create • Discover • Move • Connect • Grow
Four Ways We Experience L.U.M.I.
This is what getting off the screen can look like.
Link Ups
Real life > group chat.
Meetups, field trips, park days, youth socials, community projects, cultural outings and opportunities to simply hang out and make friends.
Labs
Make something.
Hands-on creativity through art, technology, storytelling, building, media, innovation and experimentation.
Roots
Know where you come from.
New Orleans culture, Black history, storytelling, traditions, food, music, neighborhoods and intergenerational learning.
Circles
Let's talk about it.
Age-appropriate conversations where young people can talk, listen, ask questions, express themselves and learn from one another.
Youth Wellness, Lived
Wellness isn't just the absence of struggle.
It's the presence of a full life.
For young people, wellness means having opportunities to explore who they are, build healthy relationships, feel connected to their culture, move their bodies, create, and imagine what's possible. Friends they haven't met yet. Skills they don't know they have. Stories they haven't heard. Possibilities they haven't imagined yet.
L.U.M.I. exists to help young people experience more of it.
Give them something worth growing toward.
Our New Orleans Roots
New Orleans is a classroom.
Our children live in one of the most culturally rich cities in the world. We want them to experience it.
Through neighborhoods, museums, music, food, art, storytelling, traditions, historic spaces and conversations with the people who carry our city's stories, L.U.M.I. helps young people build cultural identity and belonging—understanding where they live and the culture they're part of.
New Orleans shouldn't only be somewhere they live. It should be somewhere they know.
Joy Counts
Joy is wellness, too.
Not every moment needs a lesson attached to it. Sometimes young people need to simply be young. Joy and play are part of growing well—not a break from it.
A full childhood is a healthy childhood.
Intergenerational Learning
Some things shouldn't have to be Googled.
Wellness includes connection across generations. Our elders carry stories, skills, traditions and wisdom that deserve somewhere to go. L.U.M.I. creates opportunities for young people to learn from the people who came before them—building identity, belonging and perspective—while giving older generations the chance to see the world through younger eyes.
Our elders have wisdom. Our youth have curiosity. Community gives them somewhere to meet.
Using Your Voice
Having a voice is part of wellness, too.
Young people deserve space to speak, to be heard, and to know their voice matters. L.U.M.I. creates opportunities for youth to express themselves, share what's on their minds, listen to one another, and practice using their voice with confidence—because self-expression, emotional well-being and being heard are all part of growing well.
When young people learn to use their voice, they learn they have one.
For the Moms Raising Them
For the moms raising them.
The village isn't only for our children. Moms of Color supports the well-being of Black mothers and their families through wellness, culture, connection, and community—so the whole family grows well together.
Explore Moms of ColorPart of a Bigger Village
Part of a bigger village.
L.U.M.I. is the youth wellness and development branch of Roots of Healing Wellness, a New Orleans-based community built around connection, culture, wellness and a life well-lived. Together, Roots of Healing Wellness, Moms of Color and L.U.M.I. create opportunities for women, mothers, youth and generations to experience wellness in community.
Roots of Healing Wellness
Women's Wellness & Community • The Village
ROHW Women's Community
Wellness • Sisterhood • Quality of Life
Moms of Color
Maternal & Family Wellness
L.U.M.I.
Youth Wellness & Development
ROHW
More Life.
L.U.M.I.
Grow Well.
The L.U.M.I. Experience Starts With Roots
The L.U.M.I. experience starts with Roots.
L.U.M.I. is one branch of a much bigger village. Roots of Healing Wellness brings women, mothers, youth, families and generations together through wellness, culture, connection and shared experiences. Join the Roots community to gain access to eligible member experiences across the village—including select L.U.M.I. youth wellness experiences.
One village. One community. Experiences for every generation.
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Give your child experiences worth growing toward. Healthy minds. Meaningful experiences. Limitless possibilities. It starts with Roots.
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