The Bakari© Project is an African-centered, community-based, educational, and mentoring program for adolescent youth. The program is designed to address the challenges Black youth and other youth of color face in negotiating the community terrain between the home, school, and community, including the contact young people often encounter with law enforcement and the criminal justice systems. We assert that there is a nexus between critical elements in the communities that form a triangle for success and that too often, the aforementioned components are not working together because each dimension of the triangle blames the other for the challenges the youth face and the failures they experience. In answering the question of what is the role of Black psychologists in this process, this article is intended to invite readers to help reconnect the triangle, while introducing a model and method of effectively intervening in the lives of young people who may struggle with successfully navigating the developmental transition of adolescence to young adulthood. We conclude with a call for implementing similar programs in communities throughout the United States.

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Bakari© 项目：非洲裔美国青少年发展和成功的生命线

Bakari© 项目是一个以非洲为中心、以社区为基础的教育和指导计划，面向青少年。该计划旨在解决黑人青年和其他有色人种青年在家庭、学校和社区之间的社区领域谈判中面临的挑战，包括年轻人经常遇到的执法和刑事司法系统的接触。我们断言，社区中形成成功三角形的关键要素之间存在联系，而且上述组成部分常常无法协同工作，因为三角形的每个维度都将青年面临的挑战和失败归咎于对方经验。在回答黑人心理学家在这个过程中扮演什么角色的问题时，本文旨在邀请读者帮助重新连接三角关系，同时介绍一种有效干预年轻人生活的模式和方法，这些年轻人可能难以成功地驾驭青春期到青年期的发展过渡。最后，我们呼吁在美国各地的社区实施类似的计划。