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    Stories Matter: Introduction for the 2019 Gathering, Whidbey Island, WA
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    Stories Matter: Introduction for the 2019 Gathering, Whidbey Island, WA

    TC's Team Leader and youth introduce the 2019 Thriving Communities Gathering
    Ryan's House for Youth, Coupeville, WA
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    Ryan's House for Youth, Coupeville, WA

    Ryan’s House for Youth, on Whidbey Island, greets homeless 18-24 year olds with open arms to offer shelter, food, safety, belonging, mentoring, a sense of family, and unconditional love. The result? These courageous, vulnerable young people build life skills with renewed faith in their future. Ryan’s House gives them the space and support to grow so they can re-enter their communities with a sense of purpose.
    Nurturing Roots, Seattle, WA: Urban farming and social justice bring life back to fallow ground
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    Nurturing Roots, Seattle, WA: Urban farming and social justice bring life back to fallow ground

    Nyema Clark has a plan for restoring food equity and small neighborhood farms to her community in Seattle, and she’s making it happen. Nurturing Roots, the organization she founded, addresses systemic imbalances and oppression by focusing on farming, environmental justice, and resilience. It’s also about community-building, education, and re-engaging city folks with their environment.
    iCare community medical insurance,  Milwaukee, WI: A new approach to insurance puts people first
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    iCare community medical insurance, Milwaukee, WI: A new approach to insurance puts people first

    iCare is an extraordinary for-profit medical insurance company serving low income members of its Milwaukee community. Metrics and data are essential to its work, but iCare considers RELATIONSHIPS its top priority. iCare members are seen, heard, supported, and loved. This is a remarkable new model for medical insurance.
    Nature's Greatest Wonder, Seattle, WA: A meditation on motherhood
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    Nature's Greatest Wonder, Seattle, WA: A meditation on motherhood

    This spoken-word meditation by Young Women Empowered (Seattle, WA) is an homage to the wisdom, beauty, and love of mothers and motherhood, and to the natural world.
    From 1st to 2nd generation: Ethiopian-American families on bridging cultures, Seattle, WA
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    From 1st to 2nd generation: Ethiopian-American families on bridging cultures, Seattle, WA

    What are cross-cultural challenges arise for Ethiopian immigrants and their U.S.-born children? Hear from two generations in this film produced by youth in the Ethiopian Community in Seattle through the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (mmrtiseattle.org).
    Outliving the Cycle
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    Outliving the Cycle

    This powerful short documentary provokes all of us to ask how we can do better in communities of high incarceration. Filmed in a detention center/prison in Seattle and filmed by a group of young women, this raises the theme of the many unneccesary outcomes found in the incarceration of young people of color.
    Partners for Youth Empowerment- The Power of Hope, Whidbey Island, WA: A camp that became a movement
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    Partners for Youth Empowerment- The Power of Hope, Whidbey Island, WA: A camp that became a movement

    Peggy Taylor's and Charlie Murphy's decision in the early '90s to start a creativity and leadership camp for youth on Whidbey Island blossomed and spread, and has enriched the lives of to influence more than 250,000 young people around the world. "The Power of Hope" shows what vision, hope, love, and perseverance can accomplish when you commit to changing the world.
    Patrinell Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, Seattle, WA: A legacy of love and music
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    Patrinell Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir, Seattle, WA: A legacy of love and music

    The story of Patrinell Wright and the Total Experience Gospel Choir she founded in 1975. Thanks to Pat's determination and the power of great music, the choir overcame early setbacks to become a community icon, a beacon of diversity in a segregated place, and a national phenomenon, one fried-chicken-dinner fundraiser at a time.
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    From 1st to 2nd generation: Ethiopian-American families on bridging cultures, Seattle, WA
    11:31

    From 1st to 2nd generation: Ethiopian-American families on bridging cultures, Seattle, WA

    What are cross-cultural challenges arise for Ethiopian immigrants and their U.S.-born children? Hear from two generations in this film produced by youth in the Ethiopian Community in Seattle through the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (mmrtiseattle.org).
    Cocoon House, Everett, WA: Because every child deserves a home
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    Cocoon House, Everett, WA: Because every child deserves a home

    Teenage Homelessness is a growing problem throughout the northwest. Cocoon House offers emergency shelter and long-term beds, safety, nourishing food, and loving care to young people whose only alternative is the streets. Most important, it gives them a real sense of home.
    Senior Services, a Community Essential: Island County, WA
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    Senior Services, a Community Essential: Island County, WA

    Island County's Senior Services center helps seniors connect with each other, their community, and key services. Social dances, meals on wheels, help with medicare, medicaid, and social security, and delicious community dinners all happen thanks to a small staff and many volunteers. Food and social contact are the vehicles; love is the driver.
    Soups On: The Power of an Idea
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    Soups On: The Power of an Idea

    One woman asked what it would take to provide healthy, abundant, free food and fellowship to anyone in the community once each week. Her answer came as friends, allies, donations, resources, and farmers agreed to help, and Soup was On!
    Lulu Carpenter, a connector through art and love, Seattle, WA
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    Lulu Carpenter, a connector through art and love, Seattle, WA

    For Lulu Carpenter, a teacher, performing artist, community activist, and radio host, art means transformation and healing. Through the arts and music, she magically weaves connections among diverse kinds of people, including people who are usually overlooked.
    Goosefoot 612
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    Goosefoot 612

    Toyia Taylor: Talk to Your Future Self
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    Toyia Taylor: Talk to Your Future Self

    SPEAK. WITH. PURPOSE. Toyia T. Taylor has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. This year, she was featured in the City Arts Magazine and the recipient of the Wonder of Women (WOW) award. In 2015 she was a recipient of the National Council of Negro Women Incorporated, Style and Substance award. She has received the Education for Social Justice Award from Girls for Gender Equity, Incorporated, and has toured as a guest artist with the string octet, The Young Eight. Her original poems, Brooklyn Love and Blue Note Room, have had classical selections composed to them that were debuted at Carnegie Hall. Toyia has spoken and performed for O Magazine at the Women Rule Leadership Training Conference, co-sponsored by the White House Project. She was also featured in the 35th Anniversary Limited Edition of Interview Magazine as one of the top new artists to look out for in New York City. Founder of We.APP Speak With Purpose (SWP) is the only public speaking program in Seattle, Washington incorporated into the school day, integrating arts education with student voice to develop independent learners with self-authored identities WeAPP's vision is to bridge the engagement and opportunity gap by reaching every child that is silenced in the back of the classroom and inspire them to break their silence and step forward to become the leaders in the front.
    TOGETHER THEY WERE STRONGER
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    TOGETHER THEY WERE STRONGER

    ThrivingCommunities.org Though it is difficult to distill modern disability history in one thread, "Together They Were Stronger" is a documentary film short that celebrates one untold story about the origin of the creation of the 1st ever disability rights law in the United States, HB 90. Before this bill, families and children with disabilities had few options, they were either kept at home or placed in institutions. Back then, the common belief was that people with disabilities could not learn, and children with disabilities were barred from schools. Education for All was the first U.S. law to grant children with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education. It was signed into law by Washington State Governor Dan Evans on May 25,1971 to support education for all children as a centerpiece for children with disabilities. Hear 1st hand stories from the founding members and their families of the Education for all committee who worked uncompromisingly to make sure their children had access to education.

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