Search pages for "Resilience"
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Breaking barriers to mental health access
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/breaking-barriers-mental-health-accessUnexpected and traumatic events such as the pandemic revealed the urgent need for culturally appropriate mental health services for Oregon’s Latinx and indigenous communities. These circumstances also brought their strength to the... Read More
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Back to School in Roseburg Public Schools
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/back-school-roseburg-public-schoolsJayden Asumendi spent most of the last school year away from his peers, doing his schoolwork at his home in the Roseburg area. And, like many of his peers, Jayden struggled in the new learning atmosphere, looking forward to returning to... Read More
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Creative solutions for Child Care in Happy Camp
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/creative-solutions-child-care-happy-campIn the wake of 2020's devastating Slater Fire, a group of leaders in Happy Camp, California and the Karuk Tribe rallied to fill a critical void in their community: child care. Although the lack of child care was already an issue before the... Read More
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Wisdom through generations
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/wisdom-through-generationsNestled on the western slopes of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, east of the ridge that separates Highway 203 from North Powder, five students and two local ranchers plot their morning’s work.Maurizio Valerio, field coordinator for... Read More
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The forests and fields of the PNW with professor Mario Sifuentez
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/forests-and-fields-pnw-professor-mario-sifuentezIn 2016, Mario Jimenez Sifuentez published Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest. His book shares the story of Mexican immigrants who, out of view of most Oregonians, became the foundation of our agriculture economy... Read More
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Imagine beyond limits
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/imagine-beyond-limitsThe word border is infused with a wealth of meaning. For some, it is a physical line, for others a political separation. It is all that to Portland artist – but it is a lot more.“Borders are a very specific form of separation,” says... Read More
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Black Rural Network created by community builders
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/black-rural-network-created-community-buildersThis article is reprinted with gratitude to The Daily Yonder. See original article by Adilia Watson here.A new Oregon network is knitting together the state’s small number of Black rural residents into a larger system of support.The Black... Read More
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From Board to Council
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2021-issue-2/board-councilWith the blessing of founding members, a board vote, and a membership vote, the Ford Scholar Alumni Association dissolved as an independent nonprofit and moved under the umbrella of The Ford Family Foundation. The 13 former members of the... Read More