Engagement Mode
The FGC's Community Engagement Mode works collaboratively with the other modes to provide opportunities for healing, bring community together for uplifting and positive experiences, provides training, workshops, support circles and other gatherings where wellness tools and resources are shared.
The efforts of the Community Engagement Mode are assisted and supported by Elders and Natural Helpers as well as Community Health Workers who help to develop and nurture community connections through culturally responsive activities and events.
About Engagement Mode
By creating meaningful relationships that allow for people in the community to feel safe, seen, loved, cared for, welcomed and needed is what we call "community wellness work" and what others refer to as "public health work."
Highlights of Community Engagement Mode work include: development of Barbie's Village- a mass timber tiny home village for Native families with small children experiencing houselessness, community healing gatherings, training and celebrations, information tables at events, leading the Food Abundance Project, providing community support circles, special grant projects, Native-specific Community Health Worker training and curriculum development, and collaborating with the other mode activity as well as other community gatherings, events and projects.
In our spare time we also engage in anti-racism and anti-oppression work with systems that our community engages with. We enjoy being witness to these changes as we know that when "shift happens" that we all win.
Recent activity
- Food Abundance Project- providing food boxes and cooking classes to the community
- Domestic Violence and Men's Support Circles
- Development of Barbie's Village, the tiny home village
- Information tables at events
- Annual Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration
- Community grief gathering
- Annual self care gathering for staff and partners
- Community Baby Shower
- Community Gatherings: movies, book readings, wellness and healing gatherings, Valentine's Day/healthy relationship party
- Native specific Community Health Worker training
- Hunting project with Metro and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, including a First Kill Ceremony
- Assisting with organizational development and childcare center
- Assisting with other community gatherings: Annual MMIR event, Trunk or Treat, Annual fundraiser
This work belongs to all of us.
Show up, lend a hand, or help fund what comes next. There is a place for you in this circle.