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Partnering across school, home, and community

Sep 04, 2020

By Kathlyn Paananen, Housing and Education Manager at Seattle Public Schools

Seattle Public Schools’ (SPS) partnership with housing providers and community-based organizations is rooted in the belief that children learn best when they experience a cohesive, stable, and safe learning environment filled with caring adults. When school districts, affordable housing providers, and community partners come together, we can build positive partnerships with families, provide wrap around supports for children, and improve our education and housing services for current and future generations. SPS partners with about a dozen affordable housing partners to support access to learning opportunities, build strong school and family relationships, and address housing instability. To highlight the value of … [ ]

Introducing Bridge keynote speaker Dr. Megan Ming Francis

Sep 01, 2020

By Jimena Quiroga Hopkins, Thrive Paradigm

This has truly been a year like no other, with the devastation and uncertainty brought on by the pandemic and the mass racial uprisings that make it inevitable for the country to reckon with centuries of systemic oppression. We are, in many ways, at a crossroads. It is a critical time. A time to look back with clear vision at what has brought us here, the progress that has been made, and the work that is still needed to create a society built on a foundation of equity and liberation.  As we come together this year at the 2020 Bridge Conference with this year’s … [ ]

Bridge values in practice—leadership and nourishing

Aug 18, 2020

By Makayla Wright

Makayla Wright, Youth Voice Organizing Manager with Soar, brings us their insights from deep work in youth leadership and youth development around how to integrate and practice values of leadership and nourishing in our work with youth. These are two of the core values guiding how we build and shape the Bridge Conference experience this year. Take a few moments to read the blog post below and listen as Makayla shares with us what these values look like in how we show up for young people and ourselves. It has been five months since many of us started to quarantine in Washington. I’ve watched my work shift … [ ]

Persistence and growth-mindset—how staff and youth alike at Filipino Community of Seattle are adapting to a new normal

Aug 10, 2020

What does it mean to fail? What needs to be renegotiated in how we talk about success and challenge? If youth workers strive to foster growth mindset in the young people they work with, what does it mean to extend that kind of grace to ourselves, to remain tenacious as adults? The coronavirus pandemic has provided seemingly endless creative opportunities to do things differently. Filipino Community of Seattle (FCS) demonstrates remarkable agility and unwavering commitment to their mission, even when things don’t go according to plan. Given that their youth programming is anchored in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics), it makes sense that … [ ]

The seeds we sow and centering equity

Jul 23, 2020

By Janell Jordan

The 2020 Bridge Team decided on seven core values that help ground and inform how we intentionally move the work forward this year. We use these in our decision-making processes, to help inspire us, and push us towards bringing you a stronger conference each year. Our core values this year are: Equity Belonging Leadership Change Nourishing Innovation Community We are continuously trying to check ourselves as a team in not only what these values look like, but what they feel like as well. We don’t aspire to perform, but rather break ceilings. Centering equity is both a broad and specific … [ ]

Reflections on Bridge’s core values—innovation

Jul 06, 2020

By Janell Jordan

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” ~ bell hooks  I started working on this year’s Bridge theme at end of February–when I thought I would be back in the office in two weeks max (almost laughable at this point); back when Breonna Taylor and George Floyd still had their breath — when so many folks laid content and complicit with their everyday life. Having been a participant, a facilitator, and a support staff in previous years, working in … [ ]

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