Hope is what we want to install into our lil homies lives - a better way to look at the scenarios life provides us. We may not be able to fully take our lil homies out of their broken environments, but by providing a few resources, a community, and most importantly our time, we help them build resiliency to better navigation their lives at home, school and in their neighborhoods.
The Hope is to one day be able to break that generational and traditional aspect of our culture that keeps us inside ourselves. The aspect that has been embedded into our hearts and that keeps parents at a distance from having everlasting compassion for themselves. We want our lil homies to connect on another level. Developing these groups lets parents slowly open up to their child and gives a bigger voice to our community.
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While we are building up our lil homies with all of this good stuff, we are continuing our reach into detention facilities in Washington to reach those that society has thrown away or gladly forgotten. We have 2 homies looking at being released soon, and another appealing the length of his sentence. We ask for your prayers for their success, because the roads they will travel are not easy ones. Transitioning from a restrictive environment and being thrust into a life of open choices, responsibilities, and unfamiliar faces is tough. But we will walk with our homies as they navigate new roads, clear hurdles, and discover themselves anew.
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Program Manager
Meet Tairyn Tennyson, our new staff member. Tairyn oversees the weekly rhythm at our Everett center where youth have a safe space to work on their homework, receive life coaching and mentoring, and participate in nature walks, writing, dance, and art through our TurnAround Youth program. She leads the nature walks and believes that taking the youth out of their four block radius and into a new atmosphere that is safe and peaceful will not only plan the seed of hope, but also build resilience. Tairyn is also part of the team that mentors youth in Echo Glen Children's Center, and will be active in our summer programs at the Hope for Homies farm. Welcome Tairyn!
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