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Contact: matthew@collectivejusticenw.org

HEAL Circles

Our team holds Healing Education for Accountability and Liberation circles in community for people on all sides of harm. Community members who join our circles share and witness each other’s stories as we move together through individually-held pain to a journey of collective healing. Drawing on restorative justice practices and transformative justice principles, we build skills and wellness around coping with triggers, self and community-care, and building resilience.

Survivor Organizing Academy:

Through embodied leadership development and political education, we support community members who are left feeling powerless without a channel to influence legislation and public policy that aligns with the needs and values of their communities.

We elevate the visions of justice and safety as defined by members of the most vulnerable communities whose lives are at stake in the criminal legal system’s response to harm and violence — we understand violence as connected to a broader historical context, recognizes state as well as interpersonal violence, and is grounded in racial equity. More effective paths forward emerge when advocacy and organizing are led directly by survivors of harm and violence, from the communities most targeted by the criminal legal system.

DAPS:

We facilitate Dialogue Accountability Processes where people who have survived harm can have face-to-face dialogues with those who have caused them harm. Talking in a safe setting can allow those harmed to give full voice to their experience and all that they endured. Survivors may want to ask questions about what happened, express the impact, and make requests for repair. People responsible for harm, no matter how severe, are given the opportunity to face the often wide-ranging and complex impact of their actions and work towards their own accountability. The desired outcome of a dialogue is determined by the participants and varies depending on the needs of those involved. These dialogues and processes may also involve bystanders and/or people who enabled the harm, alongside intentional support networks of the individuals impacted and involved. We work with people in community and with people who are already in the criminal legal system, including people in jail and prison.

Referral Site

Contact: nyasha@creativejusticenw.org

BASE Program ( Enrolling 8 young people ages 14 - 20) Date: October 3 - December 16, Tuesday & Thursday 5-7pm Hours: 4 hours per week

Arts and culture are foundational to healthy connected communities. Alongside experienced community artists participants explore the power of voice and transformative possibilities of creativity. Experienced mentor artists lead four 8-12week intensive project sessions per year in a variety of disciplines. During the sessions, participants meet twice a week, for two hours, to dialogue, create, and share a meal. All participants receive an engagement stipend. Meals provided. Transportation can be provided upon request.

Heal Circle (Enrolling 5-7 young people ages 16-24) Date: October 17, 2022 - June 28, 2023, Monday & Wednesday 4:30-7pm Hours: 5 hours per week

Healing happens in relationship. Through circle practice and art-based healing work, participants engage the importance of healing and accountability in community. Circles are facilitated in collaboration with Collective Justice. Only 12 youth are enrolled per a HEAL circle. HEAL circles require 9 months of twice weekly engagement. Youth with current cases in juvenile or adult courts are prioritized for participation as mitigation or diversion. All participants receive an engagement stipend. Meals provided. Transportation may be provided upon request."

Youth Consortium (Enrolling 4-5 young people ages 14 - 21)Date: October 3 - December 31, Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Depending on engagement)Hours: 4-6 hours per week The Youth Consortium is a partnership between Rainier Beach Action Coalition, Community Passageways and Creative Justice. The Youth Consortium is a youth-led advocacy group developed by BIPOC youth for BIPOC youth most impacted by unjust systems and oppression. Meeting times vary. All participants receive a Stipend.

Creative Economies Makerspace (Enrolling 10 young people ages 14- 21)Date: October 3 - December 15, Wednesdays 4:30- 7:30 Hours: 6 hours per week

Creative Justice strives to be a part of a Creative Economy that encourages interdependence, community power building, mutual aid, and the sharing of resources. Makerspace facilitates opportunities for youth and young adults to grow their leadership and entrepreneurial skills through understanding and building creative economies via youth-led organizing, workforce development, connectivity, access, and community partnerships with local businesses & organizations . All participants receive a stipend. Meals provided.

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Contact: cgawiran@choose180.org

The Advocacy Program is a space for youth and young adults who have been impacted by the criminal legal system to build community and advocate for systemic change.

CHOOSE Freedom is a program that supports youth impacted by incarceration. Our community navigators build relationships with youth while they are incarcerated and continue to support them upon release. The mission of CHOOSE Freedom is to help young people to see their potential and to understand their power without violence."

CHOOSE 180 Workshops are 2-4 day experience that engage young people in critical moments and empowers them to make positive changes in their lives. During this virtual workshop, young people are connected to a community member that share similar experiences through the power of story. Together, they work in small groups to identify the behaviors that have brought them to this critical moment, what has kept them from the path of positive change, and how they can commit to CHOOSE 180.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.