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 at […]
Register your kids today for this amazing opportunity! Youth will learn to carve and play their very own indigenous flute with Peter Ali, Native American Flautist. Workshop will be open to youth, 10 years and older and will be held indoors at the Lopez Island Center for Community and the Arts. Then, stick around for
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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.”
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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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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