Develop a lifelong love of reading in your family through Prime Time Family Reading! Prime Time programs are FREE, and feature engaging family-based reading and discussion strategies proven to increase creativity, critical thinking, and academic success. Dinner provided each night, and siblings are welcome! Hosted with bilingual Spanish-English staff and held at the Family Resource […]
Presenting Prime Time Bilingual Reading Program! Read More »
Teens today have to navigate a very complicated world. Evidence-based research demonstrates that the best approach to help youth deal with their day-to-day realities is to provide programs that engage, educate, and empower co-design and co-leadership. Youth are more likely to reach their full potential when they are invited to build supports that they believe
Prevention Coalition, Youth Advisory Council, and The Dream Team! Read More »
Happening this Saturday, November 18th!! Join us in this interisland event for youth (MS/HS) regarding leadership skills, and prevention information. Lunch will be provided by @eltacoboutit!! Youth who attend will also receive a gift card for one of our local coffeeshops as well as immediate sign off on 5 community service hours at the end
San Juan Interisland Youth Leadership and Prevention Read More »
As the days stretch into summer and the sun nurtures us, we’ve been contemplating the true notion of belonging; what it is, how it feels, and how we might, as a community, cultivate more space for it to naturally flourish. There are many, many definitions of belonging, but for the sake of mutual understanding, here
“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.”
Engage as a Family: After School Program 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
Clam Dig! Out of School Adventure Read More »
Mentors Support Academic Engagement in Time of Despair 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)
Sailing the Spike Africa Schooner: Youth Mentoring expedition Read More »
