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“Toward the end of last year, a friend of ours had to call the ambulance,” says Karina E. Cerda Aguirre, Bilingual Youth Programs Coordinator and Community Supports Associate at LIFRC. “They ended up OK, but it got the whole Spanish speaking community talking about what we might do in the case of a real emergency.”
Have you ever walked upon the muddy banks of an ocean estuary during low tide and noticed little dimples or donut sized holes in the smooth surface of the shore? Together with our Community Partners, KWIAHT: Center for the Historical Ecology of the Salish Sea, participants of the Middle School After School program and their
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Swimming with sharks, indoor skydiving, rock climbing and more… Choice is a huge part of the after-school program, from what games and activities the youth want to do but also how to do them. The program is built on the belief that engaging youth in the creation of the program is the key to youth
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LIFRC’s Mentoring is honored to be one of seventeen programs chosen by the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) for its inaugural Outdoor Learning Grants. LIFRC’s project, Youth Outdoor Learning Opportunities: Salish Sea (YOLO: Salish Sea), is a dynamic collaboration which incorporates experiential learning that aligns with classroom instruction and indigenous ecological knowledge/innovation to
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Spanish speaking leaders from Voices and Visions taught, shared, and celebrated one of their favorite traditions with the Lopez community last week: Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). From the outside this ancient tradition, reaching as far back as the Aztecs, can seem a tad macabre. We aren’t accustomed to talking about and
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After launching and completing a successful pilot run of mostly virtual encounters in 2021, LIFRC again partnered with the Equity Institute to bring to life La Cima Lopez: a leadership program designed to empower Latinx youth by equipping them with the life skills needed to thrive in school and beyond. Based on the belief that
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In the first half of 2021, an extraordinary group of mentor tutors and paraprofessionals provided Lopez students individual tutoring and supportive academic engagement. Our goal was to reduce learning disparities during remote schooling. Thanks to a grant provided by the Washington Office of Superintendent Public Instruction (OSPI) and the dedication of a phenomenal group of
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According to an 80 year study by Harvard University, “the best predictor of your mental health is your current “relational health.” In other words, health and happiness go hand in hand with how connected we feel, both to ourselves and to the world around us, to our community. That is the bedrock for which Heart
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