Community Spring

Earlier this week, our fellow Chris Perry led a vital Storytelling Workshop focused on a heavy but necessary topic: facing trauma.

As Chris beautifully put it, facing trauma isn’t just about "dealing with something hard." It’s about confronting an experience that shook your foundational sense of safety so deeply that your mind and body are still carrying the imprint.

Poverty and mass incarceration are deeply intertwined with systemic trauma, yet so many of us are never taught how to confront or process it. During our discussion, our community shared what trauma feels like to them. Many described it as an energy absorbed and trapped within the body, while others noted how it permanently alters the filter through which you view the world.

That is why this work matters. Storytelling is how trauma loses its grip; it is the space where people reclaim their voices. By facing our trauma, we become better equipped to create stories that drive real change.

We are proud to have received grant support from Spring Point Partners for another year!

We are so grateful for this grant. Spring Point Partners continued investment in our work allows us to invest directly in impacted people to dismantle structural poverty.