CBS: What’s Next

As Detroit revolutionary Grace Lee Boggs once asked, “What time is it on the clock of the world?”

For CBS, it’s time for us to reimagine how we grow and sustain our work— how we align community needs with the resources, relationships, and care that make safety possible. After two and a half years of building a community-rooted crisis response program, we’re pausing to reflect on what we’ve learned: what’s working, what needs care, and what must evolve to meet this moment.

Our work has always been rooted in one simple truth: care, not punishment, keeps us safe. Together, we’ve responded to crisis, built spaces of trust, and practiced what it means to show up for one another outside of systems that cause harm. Through successes and challenges alike, we’ve learned what it truly takes to sustain this work for the long haul.

If you’d like to hear more about the questions we’re wrestling with in this moment, you can listen our recent episode on the One Million Experiments podcast featuring Liz & Sheri. Together, they reflect on CBS’s journey, the lessons we’ve learned, and the future we’re imagining.

Now, we’re returning to the community that created CBS to share what we’ve learned and ask again: How can we shape a world where care is our safety and community is our power?

Learn more about how we’re striving for a better world here.