New Era Pedagogics provides mental health services to children, youth, families, and adults, delivering compassionate, culturally responsive care that supports overall well-being. As an education and health consulting firm we, we partner with schools, non-profits, and health organizations to design and implement equity-centered systems that are grounded in cultural relevance. Our approach integrates mental health, learning, and community support to address the needs of the whole child while strengthening families and the broader communities in which they live.
Behavioral Health and Wellness
Education Transformation
Systems Transformation
At New Era Pedagogics, we believe health and education must evolve together into a new era—one where mental health, learning, and community support are intentionally connected to serve the whole person within coordinated systems of care.
We provide direct mental health services to children, youth, families, and adults, offering compassionate, culturally responsive support that promotes healing, resilience, and overall wellbeing across the lifespan. This direct care is grounded in a deep understanding of how mental health, identity, relationships, and environment shape everyday functioning and long-term outcomes.
In addition, we serve as a consulting partner to schools, health organizations, and non-profits to design and implement equitable, integrated systems that strengthen learning environments and support the whole child. Our consulting work focuses on aligning education, behavioral health, and community resources to improve school climate, organizational culture, and access to coordinated support.
Across both our direct services and consulting practice, our approach is unified by a commitment to culturally responsive, equity-centered care and the belief that sustainable impact requires both high-quality individual support and strong, well-designed systems. Through this dual focus, we help communities move beyond fragmented services toward connected, healing-centered ecosystems that support thriving children, families, and adults.
Dr. Chaunise “Chaun” Powell is an equity-driven systems leader, licensed clinical social worker, and educational strategist transforming how education and social service systems serve children and families. With a Doctorate in Educational Leadership focused on Social Justice, she bridges practice, policy, and implementation to drive sustainable change.
Dr. Powell is known for designing culturally relevant, whole-child systems that integrate education, health, and community
• Grounded in identity, culture, and community context
• Moves beyond theory into implementation
• Academic success + mental health + physical well-being
• Families as essential partners
• Direct support for: Students. Staff, Families
• Trauma-informed, culturally responsive care
• Preventative + responsive models
• Redesigning how schools and organizations operate
• Sustainable, structural change
It was a pleasure meeting you at the Compliance to Coordination event with SBCSS. Your keynote was invigorating and exactly what we needed - but also what I needed. I directly used your multisolver approach during a webinar I led for our grantees yesterday for Southern Inland Regional Technical Assistance Center on "Partnering Community Organizations " and used some examples of best practices from San Bernardino schools to highlight on the webinar. Thank you so much for the passion and authenticity - I appreciate every bit of it.
Integrated Supports Outreach Specialist | Learning Systems and Supports | Innovation and Engagement San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, San Bernardino, CA
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First, let me say, I am still buzzing from last week’s summit and all the valuable information that you and many of the participants shared out regarding youth wellness! Secondly, it was a pleasure to have met you knowing we share similar backgrounds, stories, and experiences growing up as PK’s in metropolitan cities. Fast forward, those hazardous roads, conflicting steps, and journey we’ve taken leads us to a place of service for the community and being change agents in youth wellness for STUDENTS.
Program Manager, Youth and Family Wellness, Reach Out Strengthening Communities Upland, CA