Program Development Youth Panel Has Begun!

We will provide a meal at in-person meetings & a gift card to youth participants.   

Due to the workgroup topics in these meetings, we can provide references for participants that engage regularly.

If transportation is a barrier, we can provide a bus pass if you reach out in advance.

(The amount of the gift card is to be determined at this time because we need to work within the grant provided, so it is dependent on the number of participants.)

Youth & young adults, ages 16 through 25, who fit within our mission of having lived experience with trauma, are invited to participate.

An important note about the term "trauma" :  

There are a lot of different words to use in defining a traumatic experience.  For example, someone may have gone through a crisis, lived through a high stress or scary situation, or a really rough and unstable living situation and all those ways of defining their experience would fit within our program.  People have a right to define their own lived experience however they choose.  Being a low barrier program, participants do not have to explain or justify their experience to us in order to participate in the Youth Panel.  We will take participants at their word that their lived experience fits. 

We request that participants RSVP if possible, but if you decide to come last minute without an RSVP, you are more than welcome.

RSVP using the link on the home page, email us at pawsitiveripples@gmail.com, or call or text (360)518-4540.

When you RSVP, please let us know if you have any food preferences or restrictions.

We'd love to have you join us!