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Hands Across the Falls – 2019

Our 3rd annual event takes place on September 28, 2019

Join us to celebrate recovery efforts in our area.  We’ll gather at the north end of the Monroe Street Bridge just before noon and line the east side of the bridge with a show of public support for the recovery community.  At noon we’ll honor those who have lost battles with addiction with five minutes of silence.

Immediately following, please visit our information and resource fair on Summit Parkway on the northeast corner of the bridge.

All are invited.  If you are in recovery, have a friend or family member who is struggling or are a community member who supports recovery efforts, please join us. 

Click HERE to find out how you can help support or volunteer for the event.

Follow along on our Facebook page to stay up to date on Hands Across the Falls 2019

 

Thank you to our community sponsors for their support:

 

 

 

 

 

Why Race Matters Workshop: History, Systems & Strategies

**This event is currently full**

**If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please register below.

You will be notified if additional space becomes available. **

Why Race Matters Workshop: History, Systems & Strategies

Presented by Greater Spokane Progress and co-sponsored by Community-Minded Enterprises, Innovia Foundation, Empire Health Foundation, Spokane County United Way, Whitworth University’s Dornsife Center for Community Engagement

Join us on Friday, September 20, 9am – 5pm at the Whitworth University U-District Campus.

(534 E. Spokane Falls Blvd)

Using the acclaimed documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” the Why Race Matters Workshop, led by a multi-racial team of local facilitators, addresses how racial inequities have been built into institutions and structures throughout our country, why it is important to use a racial equity lens, and what we can do to advance racial equity in our organizations and in our community.

This interactive workshop provides a foundation for further racial equity work: 

  • Examine beliefs about race, advantage and justice, and how these issues impact our communities, organizations, and institutions.
  • Define and discuss implicit bias and explicit bias and examples of how they operate on individual and institutional levels.
  • Gain awareness of historical cases of institutional racism.
  • Define terms and develop an understanding of the difference between: structural, institutional, and individual racism; and equity and equality.
  • Identify structural and institutional racism, how it continues to impact us today,and the complexities of the intersections with other oppressed identities.
  • Discuss local examples of institutional racism and begin to think about next steps for our ourselves and our organizations.

A follow-up workshop will be held later in 2019 to support organizational leaders in taking intentional steps to advance racial equity in their own organizations and in the larger community. 

Registration fee is $20 and includes lunch

Scholarships and travel stipends are available. To request, contact Anne Martin at anne@spokaneprogress.org.

Organizations are asked to register up to 3 people per organizations and include people who will likely attend the Why Race Matters Workshop and the follow-up workshop this fall.

The registration deadline is September 16.

This event is co-sponsored by Community-Minded Enterprises, Innovia Foundation, Empire Health Foundation, Spokane County United Way, Whitworth University’s Dornsife Center for Community Engagement

For more information about the workshops or to host a workshop for your staff/or board, contact: Anne Martin, Greater Spokane Progress at anne@spokaneprogress.org or 509-624-5657.

Why Race Matters Workshop: History, Systems & Strategies

**This event is currently full**

**If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please register below.

You will be notified if additional space becomes available. **

Why Race Matters Workshop: History, Systems & Strategies

Presented by Greater Spokane Progress and co-sponsored by Community-Minded Enterprises, Innovia Foundation, Empire Health Foundation, Spokane County United Way, Whitworth University’s Dornsife Center for Community Engagement

Join us on Wednesday, August 21, 9am – 5pm at the Whitworth University U-District Campus.

(534 E. Spokane Falls Blvd)

Using the acclaimed documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” the Why Race Matters Workshop, led by a multi-racial team of local facilitators, addresses how racial inequities have been built into institutions and structures throughout our country, why it is important to use a racial equity lens, and what we can do to advance racial equity in our organizations and in our community.

This interactive workshop provides a foundation for further racial equity work: 

  • Examine beliefs about race, advantage and justice, and how these issues impact our communities, organizations, and institutions.
  • Define and discuss implicit bias and explicit bias and examples of how they operate on individual and institutional levels.
  • Gain awareness of historical cases of institutional racism.
  • Define terms and develop an understanding of the difference between: structural, institutional, and individual racism; and equity and equality.
  • Identify structural and institutional racism, how it continues to impact us today,and the complexities of the intersections with other oppressed identities.
  • Discuss local examples of institutional racism and begin to think about next steps for our ourselves and our organizations.

A follow-up workshop will be held later in 2019 to support organizational leaders in taking intentional steps to advance racial equity in their own organizations and in the larger community. 

Registration fee is $20 and includes lunch

Scholarships and travel stipends are available. To request, contact Anne Martin at anne@spokaneprogress.org.

Organizations are asked to register up to 3 people per organizations and include people who will likely attend the Why Race Matters Workshop and the follow-up workshop this fall.

The registration deadline is August 15.

For more information about the workshops or to host a workshop for your staff/or board, contact: Anne Martin, Greater Spokane Progress at anne@spokaneprogress.org or 509-624-5657.

Recovery Coach Training – Spokane

This training is designed for those interested in promoting the health and wellness of people with substance abuse disorders.  Learn to help remove barriers and obstacles to recovery for those seeing or already in recovery.

This FREE training will be held over four days at Recovery Cafe Spokane.  Meals will not be provided during this training but you are welcome to bring your own.

  • Friday, October 19: 3:00 – 9:00pm
  • Saturday, October 20: 9:00am – 6:00pm
  • Friday, October 26: 3:00 – 9:00pm
  • Saturday, October 27: 9:00am – 6:00pm

If you have questions or need further assistance please contact Christine at Access to Recovery 509-960-8529 or christinem@community-minded.org.

 

If you need assistance with online registration, please view our step by step instructions.

 

Hands Across the Falls – 2018

Join us for the 2nd Annual event, Hands Across the Falls. We’ll gather on the Monroe Street Bridge over the Spokane Falls in a show of public support celebrating recovery. Join hands and show strength and unity for those in recovery.

Due to construction we will gather at the north end of the bridge.  This will be the only staging area.

September is National Recovery Month, help us celebrate the recovery movement. Friends, family, individuals, and organizations are invited to attend. We encourage organizations who support recovery to show their pride, wear shirts with your organization’s logo or bring banners and signs proclaiming your support.

 Follow along on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RecoveryCafeSpokane/ for updates and details as the date grows closer.

 

We are in need of volunteers, contact us at RecoveryCafe@community-minded.org to learn how you can help.

Conscious Discipline: Building Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms

This training is for early learning educators and professionals interested in the social-emotional health of children. With almost half of the children in the United States suffering one or more types of trauma we need to ask ourselves, what can we do to heal our communities? In this training you will learn specific, evidence-based ways to reach the children of trauma from a Certified Master Conscious Discipline Instructor with 14 years of experience.  You will earn 6 STARS hours. Lunch will be provided. This is a special offering that is expected to sell out. Don’t miss out.

We are sorry, but this training has sold out. It is no longer possible to add more participants.