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Keeping you up-to-date with the coalition!
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We're very excited to announce changes to our monthly newsletter! Beginning this month, you will see stories and news about our neighborhoods and happenings in the coalition. You will also be able to find event listings for our neighborhood associations in the newsletter and community-wide listings on our events calendar link. Learn more about submitting news, stories and events here. We would also like to introduce you to the many new faces supporting the work and mission of SE Uplift. Get to know new staff: Ashe Urban, Bob Kellett, Kelly Fedderson, and Jay Derderian and our new intern, Owen Wise-Pierik here!
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| Community Resource Sharing Workshop |
 You need a tool for a construction project but you know that you'll never use it again after the project is finished. You'd like to do something with the apples from your apple tree but you don't own an apple corer or have the space to store one anyhow. Your child is ready for a bike, but you know that she will outgrow it in a year.
Sound familiar?
Almost every day we face decisions about what to buy and how to use what we own. An increasing number of people in our community are turning to resource sharing as a way to complete a construction project, cook a meal, and bring joy to a child without having to spend money on a new thing that will just end up collecting dust in the closet.
SE Uplift (3534 SE Main St.) is hosting a free workshop on resource sharing on Saturday, October 20th from 10am-Noon. With project presentations, networking opportunities, and useful resources, this workshop will provide participants with the inspiration and practical tools they need to start and grow resource sharing in their own neighborhoods!
If you are at all interested in sharing tools, household items, workspace, cars, bikes, clothing, skills, land for gardening, or even chickens - this workshop is the place to get started!
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Coalition Spotlight: On-the-Move
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As Molly Mayo, a special education teacher, reflected on her classroom she could not help but wonder if there was a better way to serve people with diagnosed disabilities. Working as the Assistant Director for the Mount Hood Kiwanis Camp and as a special education teacher with Portland Public Schools, the disparities in the two systems were glaring.
In the school system, a lack of funding for public school disability programs, a lack of support for special education teachers, and a lack of understanding that creating the proper environment for kids with disabilities and differences is critical for a student to thrive, all lead to a disjointed setting. "Mental health was going downward, it was hugely stressful [for students and staff] and people were at each other's throats," Mayo said.
Because of her simultaneous work with the Mount Hood Kiwanis Camp, Mayo knew that alternative approaches were not only possible, but were highly successful. The camp system created a setting that "was celebratory, life affirming, collaborative, and healthy" and resulted in the participants feeling vibrant, integrated and capable of exceeding what society expected. And, of course, this setting was invigorating for staff who, like Mayo, worked in both the camp and school settings.
Mayo concluded that the problem with how the school system navigated special education programs was systemic. "Obviously the problem with this is the system and not any of the people involved." Mayo bravely began to ponder her own life path, asking herself "do I really want to spend my life and my career in that system or in an alternative which clearly is possible."
Read full article. . . .
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News: A New Vision for Southeast Foster Road
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 Standing on the corner of Southeast Foster Road and 72nd Avenue, you can feel a steady breeze as cars pass by, many exceeding the posted speed limit of 35mph. A middle school age child dashes across the street on his way back from a convenience store. A speeding car screeches its brakes at the last minute and avoids hitting the boy. This scene plays out every day on Southeast Foster Road.
Unfortunately, all too often the ending is not so innocent. For more than a decade, crash data has identified Southeast Foster Road as having one of the city's highest incidences of traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
A group of citizens from the neighborhoods next to Southeast Foster Road is determined to change this by bringing a new vision to the busy arterial. It is a vision of a road that helps local businesses to thrive and where people in cars and transit, on foot, and on bicycle can get around safely. . . . continue. . . . |
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Neighborhood Association Happenings
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Ardenwald Johnson CreekFriends of Tideman Johnson Park Work Party October 6, 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at Tideman Johnson Park Volunteers of all ages are welcome to help out. Work tools and refreshments are provided. Volunteers should dress accordingly to the weather and prepare to work in muddy or wet conditions. Buckman (BCA) Still having trouble deciding who you should vote for in the upcoming Mayoral and City Commissioner elections? Come bring your ballot and figure it out at the Candidate's Forum on Thursday, October 11th, sponsored by the Buckman Community Association. We'll be asking questions of Charlie Hales, Jefferson Smith, Amanda Fritz, and Mary Nolan. MontavillaJoin your local Stark Street businesses for First Friday's (10/5), starts at 6pm. Retailers stay open later and feature specials on products, bars and restaurants offer specials on drinks, desserts or appetizers; and some business feature art showings with the artist present. South Tabor logo contest Develop and submit a South Tabor logo that represents the character and/or location of the neighborhood in a simple design. The logo will be used on neighborhood kiosks, signs, stationary, the website, T-shirts, and fliers. Open to all creative South Tabor residents and business owners are invited to submit logo designs. Submit entries to logo@southtabor.org in .jpg format no later than Wednesday, October 31st. STNA will choose the winner from the top two designs. Neighborhood Associations submit event or workshop details here!
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Our calendar is reserved for community; coalition; neighborhood; and city events, workshops and trainings. To submit an event or meeting to our calendar email info@southeastuplift.org. |
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3534 SE Main St., Portland, OR 97214 · 503.232.0010 · www.southeastuplift.org |
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