Organize Overcome Reclaim Uplift
our plan.
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Cultivate Partnerships
July 2025 - September 2025
We have built partnerships with Shaver Elementary School and Sacramento Elementary School at the Parkrose School District, as well as several parent groups, local mutual aid groups, community based organizations, and community members.
Right now, we're building a network of families to gather, cook, and/or share food, clothing, and other necessities with each other.
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Cultivate Capacity
October 2025 - February 2026
Through deep listening and generative conversation with caregivers and youth, we will learn about the abundance of gifts, skills, passions, and knowledge within our Black and brown communities.
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Design Together
March 2026 - December 2026
Youth, educators, and caregivers will design new infrastructure to center families' strengths and prevent unnecessary calls to the child welfare hotline.
Educators & Youth
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How can educators respond to youth needs without punishment, and in ways that affirm families' dignity?
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How can we ease the burden on teachers and shift expectations for them to do it all?
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How do young people see their role in supporting each other and their communities?
Caregivers
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What kinds of resources, relationships, or systems could help a family-led pod support other families in meaningful, sustainable ways?
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How can we foster trust, mutual care and shared responsibility across communities?
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How should healthy, respectful relationships built on cultural wisdom look between direct service organizations and families?
our guiding framework.
Community care is mutual aid.
It is coordinated collective action to:
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meet survival needs
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build shared understanding about why people do not have what they need
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expand solidarity
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mobilize families, and
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create conditions that foster thriving.
Learn more from Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)
We build community care through co-design and co-governance. We ask:
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What can we respond to or resolve with a small group of people, without systemic or political change?
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What feels too big now, but can be solved if all our neighbors come together?
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What problems require some kind of political activism, local, or state power to be fixed in any real way?
Community care is designed by the community. Some ways that can look are:
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connecting families with unconditional cash support and direct connections with community services.
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respite nights, where families can drop of their kids, take a break, and get access to skills and resources that support caregivers in healing
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a family-led child care co-op that supports both youth and caregivers, and builds intergenerational wealth
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a recurring cross-cultural community gathering, held in a safe space away from schools or systems, that serves as a bubble of joy - allowing families to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, waking up, staying sober, anything and everything
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something totally bold and revolutionary that no one's thought of yet
Community accountability is transformative justice.
It is a process in which a community such as a family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, or community members work together to transform situations of harm.
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acknowledge harm even if it is unintended
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recognize how harm impacts the community even when it occurs between individuals
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make appropriate reparations to individuals and the community
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transform attitudes and behaviors to prevent further violence
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engage bystanders to shift community conditions that allow and perpetuate the violence
Learn more from the Creative Interventions Toolkit