ALL DAY, EVERYDAY
LET'S GET WELL Y'ALL
Real. Raw. Authentic.
Recovery Chaplaincy from the margins, at the margins, for the margins.
ABOUT
Dr. L.A. McCrae, CSC-AD, CPRS, RCP, RPS, CCTSA, CCTP is a grassroots, community-based research activist who believes in the Great Believing and this project called liberation. They are a graduate of the Doctorate of Ministry student at Wesley Theological Seminary in the Public Engagement track.
LA. focuses their work on issues related to mass incarceration/decarceration, trauma, addiction, and mental health. Additionally, L.A. is a student in the Doctorate of Public Health program at Morgan State University focused on the interconnectedness of trauma, addiction, and incarceration.
L.A.’s is currently collaborating with colleagues to merge the work of pastoral care and alcohol and drug counseling to develop a new generation of “recovery chaplains.”
INTERESTS
L.A. is currently working on projects in the following areas:
ABOLITION
#EndMoneyBail #BabiesAndBailouts #NBO
Working to interrupt the system of mass incarceration by decareration and healing unaddressed and undiagnosed trauma.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Working to articulate health disparities for historically and demographically marginalized and disenfranchised communities.
ADVOCACY
Working on behalf of those who feel voiceless and powerless... working on their behalf in the project of liberation
ACTIVISM
Raising awareness. Increasing political consciousness. Community-based research activist.
EMERGENT LIBERATION THEOLOGY
Witness to the Great Believing making themselves present through the musings of a Black Methodist, Wesleyan, UU queer, two-spirited free spirit
TRAUMA
Rev. Christin C. Green proclaims: "our lives are sacred text." Trauma does not have to be the end of the story but is the beginning of a great unraveling in our process of healing. Acknowledging and healing our trauma breakthrough we need to access deep transformation. Our lives are sacred context for our liberation!
OPIOIDS
"Nothing everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
Working directly with treatment providers, policy makers, folks on the street, churches, and nonprofits to create solutions to address the opioid crisis, a national pandemic.
RECOVERY CHAPLAINCY
Showing up. Real. Authentic. Raw.
Transforming Lives.
One day at a time.
