Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture: learning and advocacy series

The North Sound Collaborative Action Network presents a learning and advocacy interactive webinar series for 2022, Advancing a Just and Inclusive Culture. Each month, we will host a presentation with local and national experts and interactive breakout rooms on topics grounded in equity and vital conditions for our work in the North Sound. Our working groups in the Network, called Cohorts, will be alternating our topics each month and bringing you rich discussion and challenging ideas.

To attend the live webinar, register here and add the Zoom calendar link to your own calendar. The recordings and resources from each month’s session will be added to this collection shortly after the live presentation.

November: Emergency Preparedness

In November 2022, our Emerging Focus Areas Cohort prepared a discussion on Emergency Preparedness with invited community members to share their first-hand experiences and the ongoing recovery efforts from the record-breaking floods that impacted Whatcom and Skagit counties in 2021.Please review the presentation slides, resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

The Endangered Languages Project

Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost....

Fire in Paradise

Frontline (PBS) documentary about the Camp Fire in California in November 2018, highlighting the complexity of preparing for unprecedented events that are now r...

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code tells the story of the tragic 1995 Chicago heatwave, the most traumatic in U.S. history, in which 739 citizens died over the course...

October: Reimagining Data

In October 2022, our Equity Cohort prepared a discussion on Reimagining Data, reimaging how we collect and analysis data to better understand well-being, through community-centered data initiatives and the broader movement around data justice. 

This session featured Jason McGill of Northwest Youth Services, Amy Rydel of Whatcom County Health Department, and Dr. Andres Lopez, PhD, and Dr. Mira Mohsini, PhD, of Coalition of Communities of Color. Please review the presentation slides, resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Measuring Mobility from Poverty

What would it take to dramatically increase mobility from poverty?  To answer this question, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty gathered a range of in...

September: Mobile Integrated Health

In September 2022, our Care Coordination Cohort prepared a discussion on Mobile Integrated Health, which helps community members navigate complex, disconnected, and disorganized systems of care and services as one strategy for meeting patients where they are and providing care in the community. This session featured Alessa Lopez-Castor of Consistent Care, Adam Davis of the Health Commons Project, Jim Reinhardt of Tulalip Bay Fire, and Mike Hilley of Whatcom County Emergency Medical Services. Please review the presentation slides, resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Street Medicine Institute

The Street Medicine Institute (SMI) facilitates and enhances the direct provision of health care to the unsheltered homeless where they live. SMI does this by p...

GRACE and LEAD Programs

Ground-Level Response and Coordinated Engagement (GRACE) program provides intensive support to people who are frequent users of emergency medical services (EM...

July: Reducing Stigma

In July 2022, our Practice Transformation Cohort team prepared a discussion on Reducing Stigma: how can we work together to mitigate and eliminate stigma. We know stigma negatively impacts community members, particularly as they try to navigate systems to support their mental health, sexual health, and/or substance use disorder treatment. In order for people to better access care, we need to reduce stigma.

This session will help us recognize and combat the ways that stigma shapes our interpersonal, organizational, and systemic experiences. Please review the resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Mount Baker Presbyterian Ministry Update

Kevin Riley of Mount Baker Presbyterian Church describes community outreach efforts including addressing homelessness with a cold weather shelter, COVID vaccina...

Creating the Future

Creating the Future is a collection of people around the world, supporting each other in a 10 year experiment in systems change, to determine how much more huma...

#I Can Help

A digital resource to transform how current and future generations of students use social media and digital technology in everyday life to make a positive impac...

Shout Your Abortion

Shout Your Abortion is normalizing abortion and elevating safe paths to access, regardless of legality. SYA makes resources, campaigns, and media intended to ar...

Sex, Race, and Politics in the U.S.

This publication was conceptualized and written in collaboration between the Women of Color Sexual Health Network (WoCSHN) – an online-based, collective organ...

Clergy couple share lived experience

This article describes the experience of a Sedro Wooley, Washington clergy couple overcoming addiction to help the local community. Featuring Kevin and Danielle...

Work2BeWell

Work2BeWell is a direct response to community requested resources after a rise in teen suicides in the Pacific Northwest. Answering the call, former Executive D...

June: Racial Justice: Acts of Resistance

In June 2022, our Equity Cohort team prepared a discussion on Racial Justice: Acts of Resistance. Featuring the experienced and personal perspectives from Dr. Ramona Beltran, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work and Interdisciplinary Research Institute for the Study of (in)Equality; Michael Tuncap, Chair, Center for Guided Pathways, and Guam Delegation to United Nations; and Enrique Lopez, Chicanx Community Leader in the North Sound. Please review the resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Relevant Engagement

Relevant Engagement, LLC is a consulting firm based in the state of Washington. The mission is to engage youth, adults, institutions, and community organization...

Center for Guided Pathways

The Center for Guided Pathways works with student leaders & student affairs professionals at all levels. The Center believes that closing demographic dispar...

Anti-racist Resources: Google Doc

This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices ...

May: Meaningful Work & Wealth

In May 2022, our Vital Conditions team prepared a discussion on Meaningful Work & Wealth, one of the Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being. Featuring national perspectives from Becky Payne of the Rippel Foundation, and Gary Cunningham of Prosperity Now, as well as regional voice Jason McGill of Northwest Youth Services, these panelists brought rich discussion about racial economic justice, and how to frame these concepts to your work. Please review the presentation slides, resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Well-Being Portfolio

A visual toolkit from the Rippel Foundation for regional leaders to create a balanced and impactful set of policies, programs, and practices to transform well-b...

April: Land Back

In April 2022, our Equity team prepared a discussion on Land Back: Beyond Land Acknowledgment to Stewardship, Decolonization, and Reconciliation. The concept of Land Back is an organizing campaign that seeks to return political and economic control of land to Indigenous people. This session featured North Sound ACH Tribal & Community Liaison Michaela Vendiola, and Dr. Kelly Gonzales of the Indigenous Equity Institute. Please review the presentation slides, resources shared by our speakers, and re-watch or share the recording.

Do salmon have rights?

This article describes a legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe alleging that the city’s hydroelectric dams violate the native salmon...

The Swinomish Reservation

This website describes and explores the Swinomish Reservation, which is located on Fidalgo Island in Western Washington State. It also explores unlawful attempt...