Houselessness: Community Engagement Evening

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1-August-2022
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
SE Uplift Headquarters Parking Lot, 3534 SE Main St (map)
Refreshments provided 

  • Learn how to form a Houselessness Action Committee
  • Get ideas for projects to replicate in your neighborhood
  • Help assemble hygiene kits
  • Meet organizations focused on houseless solutions

Please join the SE Uplift Houselessness Action Committee (HAC) for an evening of resource sharing and conversation on Monday, August 1st , 6:00 – 8:00pm in our parking lot at 3534 SE Main Street. Neighbors from across our southeast coalition district will gather to meet and mingle with the organizations and projects leading the way in addressing houselessness in our city.

This family-friendly event offers neighbors a meaningful opportunity to connect with grassroots organizations and to get involved in compassionate solutions. Come learn about effective and practical efforts to support our houseless neighbors.

Over 50 homeless service providers and community groups have been invited to set up a table for this resource-sharing event. We will also hold breakout sessions for community members interested in forming a Houselessness Action Committee in your Neighborhood Association and learning more about organizing a hygiene station in your community.

This is a family-friendly event. We are planning fun activities to entertain the kiddos and light snacks will be available. We will also have a work station for individuals and families interested in assembling hygiene kits to be distributed to houseless neighbors. We ask guests to consider bringing mini- or travel-sized packages of the following items for this effort:

  • Soap bars
  • Shampoo
  • Tooth brushes
  • Toothpaste
  • Combs
  • Tissues
  • Hand wipes
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Lip Balm
  • Sunscreen
  • Female hygiene supplies
  • Large Ziploc bags
  • Deodorant
  • Bandages
  • Triple antibiotic ointment
  • Alcohol wipe

Questions? Contact Alex. We look forward to seeing you on August 1st!

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Announcing 2022 FoPo Garden Tour

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People in a yard next to a house, standing at a table with potted plants on top, with a sign in front reading, "Annual Foster-Powell Garden Tour"

After a 2 year hiatus (thanks COVID!), the Foster-Powell Garden Tour is back!

The garden tour is a free, family-friendly event open to anyone who wants to check out the Foster-Powell neighborhood, get inspired, and see what can be done on a city lot.

It’s forecast to be nice and sunny this Saturday! Bring your family and friends along and meet your neighbors. Explore what’s possible with a little bit of water, sun, and a little bit of TLC.

When: Saturday 21-May-2022
Time: 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Link to the Facebook Event

Maps

We’ve made a PDF map that you can print as well as a Google Maps and Ride with GPS you can load on your device. The Google Maps and Ride with GPS versions also contains a suggested walking / biking loop which passes through Carts on Foster and the Holgate Library, both of which are suggested starting points.

Foster-Powell Community Garden
Garden Tour
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Rethinking Thanksgiving

We are re-sharing this content from the Kellogg Middle School family newsletter so more people can benefit from the information:

The National Museum of Native Americans offers the following guidance and resources for schools celebrating Thanksgiving: Reenactments of the mythologized Thanksgiving story with construction-paper headdresses and children with war-painted cheeks are not an appropriate or accurate commemoration of this history. Such activities perpetuate harmful caricatures and stereotypes of Native peoples and cultures. For non-Native children, these activities may be one of their only remembered educational exposures to Native Americans. Thus, generation after generation of Americans will develop misinformed opinions at an early age. They learn little of the true diversity and richness of Native cultures. Instead, inaccurate, incomplete, and inappropriate understandings prevail, generation after generation.

Giving thanks is a longstanding and central tradition among most Native groups that is still practiced today. Learn about different thanksgiving traditions among Native people. If you teach about the “First Thanksgiving,” use these resources and more to present the history more accurately and with Native perspectives.

Native American Perspectives on Thanksgiving is a downloadable teaching poster

Associated with this poster, the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address: Greetings to the Natural World is a translation and transcription of the words Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people speak in their Native languages throughout the year at important events, celebrations, and ceremonies.

Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth, a downloadable study guide examines the history of relationships between the Wampanoag people and the early English colonists.

Come sing, listen, learn and celebrate! Join Karen Kitchen (Osage Nation) for this story hour featuring songs and books from Native cultures. Children, families, elders, aunties and uncles — everyone is welcome. December 15th at 10:30am Native Story Hour | Multnomah County Library (multcolib.org)

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