Community Passageways

Join us on Thursday for our 2nd annual Safe Candy Stop at the Service Center!

One day until Path to Empowerment! It's not too late to get your ticket. ? ? Join us for an inspiring evening as we come together to support King County’s 100 Days of Peace Initiative. This is a special opportunity to hear from the CP team, our partners, and local government leaders about the impactful work we’ve achieved this past year—thanks to your support! Our journey is far from over. This event is for those who are ready to join the conversation about how we can stand together to end gun violence. Come prepared to engage in meaningful discussions about prevention and intervention efforts right here in King County. It takes all of us working in unity—we can’t wait to see you there! ???? https://lnkd.in/g8XTKQ_C Path to Empowerment? ?? Thursday, October 17, 2024? ?? 6-9pm? ?? First & Bell - 2218 1st Ave ?#100DaysofPeace #100DaysofAction #PathToEmpowerment #CommunityPassageways #TWEGV?

We are putting an “all hands on deck” call out to each and every politician, business owner, community organization, and individual to make a difference during this 100 Days of Peace.?? Why should YOU attend Path to Empowerment on October 17? Dom said it best!?? “We need your voice. We need you to see the organizations that are out there doing the work every day, that are grinding to save our community and save our kids every day. We need you to see the collaborations that are happening between different government departments, and so we need you to be there because you are our community, and we need your hands on deck with all the other hands. We want you to join hands with us as we start walking down a path to empowering ourselves, to stopping gun violence and healing our community and keeping our kids safe, it's time for you to step into the game, and we're giving you an opportunity to step on our field and play with us.”? Thank you to everyone who has purchased a ticket so far. It’s not too late to get yours today! Join the conversation around how together we can end gun violence.?Tickets to Path to Empowerment available with the link below. https://lnkd.in/g8XTKQ_C

A look back at last year’s Path to Empowerment fundraiser! Huge thanks to everyone who has purchased a ticket so far! Interested in attending or making a donation? Visit the link in our bio. Join us on 10.17.24 for an inspiring evening as we come together to support King County’s 100 Days of Peace Initiative. Path to Empowerment tickets are live. We hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/g8XTKQ_C

If you’ve been to a CP event, you’ve probably had the pleasure of meeting Charmaine, our wonderful Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships! Here’s a special invitation to all of our followers to join us at Path to Empowerment on Thursday, October 17 at First & Bell. We’d love to see you there! RSVP with the link below. Are you a community member interested in attending and would benefit from a complimentary ticket? Send us a DM! https://lnkd.in/g8XTKQ_C

The Cities United Convening in Seattle was inspiring and motivating. I learned so much listening to local and national leaders share their wisdom and expertise and hearing from survivors about we can best support them. Learning about the incredible violence prevention and intervention work being done by Community Passageways during my site visit was amazing. Seeing their team in action doing Safe Passage at Garfield High School and supporting their neighbors with a food giveaway in the Central District gave me so much insight into how we can continue to enhance and expand our community safety work here. Teil S. Erica Valencia-Adachi

Gun violence prevention takes a community of people looking out for each other. This comic strip by King County Public Health and King County Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention shows the dedication and care needed for this work, as explained by Mark, a Violence Interrupter at CP! Comic by Ariana Donaville and Meredith Li-Vollmer. You can also read the comic on the Public Health Insider Follow @kingcountyrgv to learn more about local efforts to prevent gun violence and how you can get involved. #100DaysofActionKC #gunviolenceprevention #gunviolenceawarness

The following story is the first in a three-part series by The Seattle Medium about Community Passageways. Read the full article with the link below! Like many organizations, Community Passageways has the disturbing challenge of knowing what is needed to make a major difference in the community, and the limited resources that they have at their disposal to meet those needs. CEO Dom Davis believes in the notion that it takes a village to raise a child, but also knows that it takes a collective community effort to care for, protect, and help guide our youth in the right direction, and he is hopeful that more members of the community step up to provide our youth with opportunities to be successful. “We need the community to step up and help provide opportunities for housing, therapeutic services, internships, apprenticeships, jobs, leadership, we need it all,” says Davis. “[We need] more finances, more unrestricted funds, that doesn’t tie our hands to contracts, government contracts, and scopes of work.” For Davis, who understands that while he is the face of the organization through the eyes of the civic establishment of the Greater Seattle area, his vision represents and reflects the collective mindset and values of everyone associated with the organization, especially those who go out of their way to lend someone reaching out in distress a helping hand. ?“I would like the community to see me as somebody that is an asset to the community, and that is an asset to our Black and Brown people living in this community,” says Davis. “Hopefully, I’m providing economic structures for people to have employment, gainful employment, to go through trainings, and get certified to do work in the community that they have harmed, or that they once were a deficit to, and now are an asset to, or just have the heart to just want to help people? And I hopefully I provided an opportunity for people to do that.” https://lnkd.in/gjtiZ38j

Meet Mark Rivers and learn why he supports 100 Days for Peace! Mark is our Deputy Director of Community Safety. We sat down with him to learn more about 100 Days of Peace and how you, our community, can get involved!? “We're all going to do our part in these next 100 days to make sure that our young people are supported, loved, cared for and empowered. Empowered to live a peaceful life so that they can grow. We are asking each and every person to get involved! Go to your? nearest nonprofit - Community Passageways, Rainier Vista, Urban Family Center, YMCA (just to name a few). If you want to volunteer, find out how you can volunteer in your community. If you're somebody who's serious about getting into this work and want to make it a career, go and submit that application to work toward peace. Come be a part of the family.”? Thanks Mark!?? Meet Mark and the rest of our team at Path to Empowerment on Thursday, October 17. RSVP today with the link below! https://lnkd.in/gkV4r-6q

Join us for our upcoming webinar, "Co-developing Theories of Change for Improved Community-based Violence Intervention Evaluation," presented by Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program's Julia Schleimer, MPH and her partners. Tuesday, October 8th 12-1 PM MT Register: https://lnkd.in/gsvbM3qm