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Recently celebrating 10 years in the community, the perinatal therapy practice Mobile Mama is growing thanks to community support, such as the Collaborative Action Network Review Committee. Mobile Mama provides counseling services from conception through motherhood. In 2017, a group of partners in Whatcom County formed a perinatal mental health task force to build community […]
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Dreaming Out Loud
This phrase has been on my mind for several months. Just about every week I get to spend time with partners who are doing creative and important work that is fueled by passion and commitment, but not always supported financially to be sustainable. We try to imagine what it would take to make those efforts […]
Equity: Important Now More Than Ever
Last summer we were getting ready to launch our first communities of practice, and had several conversations that retrenchment was just around the corner for investments in equity-focused work. A lot of organizations added DEI staff after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. By early 2023, many of those organizations were already walking back […]
Embracing Our Multifaceted Identities
There are more than a few voices whose words I turn back to time and time again, especially when things feel harder than on other days: Our team is definitely being called upon to practice. Like many of you, we are learning into anti-racism, anti-blackness, antisemitism, Asian hate, islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia, and more. And trying […]
Network Dispatch: Cultural Alimentos Project
Community-Centered Solutions: Cultural Alimentos Project About to launch phase two of this project, the collaborating organizations – Bellingham Food Bank, Northwest Agricultural Business Center, and Refugee and Immigrant Services NW – have made great strides to increase food security for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and refugee, immigrant, and migrant (RIM) populations! Approved […]
