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Apr 15, 2025

Community Chats Season 2, Episode 9 is now live!

Tune in to the ninth episode of Season 2 of the Community Chats Podcast, featuring Sherron Grant, parent, advocate, and co-founder of Sawubona, in conversation with Brad Saunders, CEO of Community Living Toronto.

Community Chats Season 2, Episode 9 is now live!

Apr 9, 2025

Sherron and Clovis Grant Win 2025 Tribute Award

Empowered Kids Ontario awards Sherron and Clovis the Tribute Award honouring individuals, teams, and organizations that are changing the lives of Ontario kids with disabilities and developmental needs, supporting their caregivers, and working unrelentingly to make Ontario communities more inclusive and accessible.

Sherron and Clovis Grant Win 2025 Tribute Award

Feb 21, 2025

Season 5 Episode 2: Navigating the Challenges of Autism Care as a Black Caregiver

Michelle Jobin speaks with Sherron and Clovis Grant, parents of an adult son with autism and founders of the Sawubona Afrocentric Circle of Support. Drawing from over 20 years of caregiving experience, they share their journey navigating the unique challenges that Black families face when raising a child with autism.

Season 5 Episode 2: Navigating the Challenges of Autism Care as a Black Caregiver

Jan 30, 2025

Who Cares - Righting Wrongs

A podcast about caregiving. Episode #5 features our co-founders Clovis and Sherron Grant.

Who Cares - Righting Wrongs

Sep 26, 2024

Advocating Across The Divide: Confronting the Health Disparities Black Families Face

A podcast talking about Sawubona and its impact on families and community.

Advocating Across The Divide: Confronting the Health Disparities Black Families Face

Aug 29, 2024

Interview: Founders of Sawubona

Met Radio's Donovan Lacroxi interviews founders of Sawubona. Sawubona is an afrocentric group providing services to families of African descent who have a caregiver or a parent with a disability.

Interview: Founders of Sawubona

Aug 19, 2024

Director of Sawubona featured in Autism Matters Magazine

Sherron Grant, Executive Director of Sawubona, was featured in the Spring 2024 edition of Autism Matters Magazine for winning the Volunteer Award

Director of Sawubona featured in Autism Matters Magazine

Feb 20, 2024

Holland Bloorview Bloom Blog

Mother fights anti-Black bias in autistic daughter's care.

Holland Bloorview Bloom Blog

Jun 10, 2023

Kigaana Productions

Down: Canada's Black Caregivers

Kigaana Productions

Feb 15, 2023

Connecting disability to … life as a Black family

Clovis and Sherron are the co-founders of Sawubona Africentric Circle of Support, an organization dedicated to helping Black families get the resources they need to support loved ones who live with a disability.

Connecting disability to … life as a Black family

Jun 21, 2022

From BPSG to Sawubona

BLACK AND DISABLED. Two adjectives that are not often used simultaneously in a sentence, but a lived reality that must be acknowledged and responded to ap- propriately. Living with a disability.

From BPSG to Sawubona

Jun 2, 2022

Schools Don't Own Education

Supporting Racialized Families of Children with Disabilities ft. Sherron Grant. This episode is also available on Apple Music, Spotify, and iHeart Radio.

Schools Don't Own Education

Mar 20, 2022

Autism Matters

Stepping Up to the Plate - "I am not a hero. I am a Black father" (Spring 2022)

Autism Matters

Feb 24, 2022

February and Forever

February and Forever, Celebrating Black History Today and Everyday

February and Forever

Sep 11, 2021

Ontario Science Centre

School Strategies and Resources

Ontario Science Centre

Jun 20, 2021

Autism Matters

The Black Parent Support Group (BPSG) - A Response to the Isolation of a Pandemic (Summer 2021)

Autism Matters

Mar 8, 2021

Windsor Law Faculty

BIPOC & Disability: Lived Experiences...

Windsor Law Faculty

Feb 6, 2021

Ontario Science Centre

Voices on Race and Autism...

Ontario Science Centre

Feb 3, 2021

The Dr.Vibe Show

The Dr. Vibe Show: Black Canada Talking...

The Dr.Vibe Show

Dec 20, 2020

CTV News

Black Parents Support Group

CTV News

About Us

Sawubona Africentric Circle of Support is an incorporated non-profit organization that aims to EMPOWER Black caregivers of individuals with disabilities and their families to use their voice and create change. 

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