For our 15th Anniversary in 2020, we asked our community to share their experiences and memories of Rise. Here’s a few!
Allison Brown, NYC
Tahitia Foggie, Connecticut
Jim Dossett, Oregon
Michelle Chalmers, Minnesota
Tenisha Sanders’ Kids! NYC
For our 15th Anniversary in 2020, we asked our community to share their experiences and memories of Rise. Here’s a few!
Allison Brown, NYC
Tahitia Foggie, Connecticut
Jim Dossett, Oregon
Michelle Chalmers, Minnesota
Tenisha Sanders’ Kids! NYC
Rise shared its vision, current projects and calls to action for our community to get involved on Sept. 29 through a webinar.
Watch below if you missed it, and feel free to share in your networks to build the movement to dismantle child welfare systems and create communities that invest in families and offer collective care, healing and support.
Sept 29, 2020
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Please join us for a virtual 15th anniversary celebration to toast our first 15 years and support our Rise & Shine Parent Leadership Program!
Donate or RSVP to attend!
A Toast to Rise! 15th Anniversary CelebrationOctober 28, 6pm EST – Virtual Event Featured SpeakersDorothy RobertsRep. Gwen Moore Featured PerformanceJelani Alladin Pre-Party 5:30-6pm Musical Guest: Compás
Reserve Your TicketEvent is free! Donate or RSVP to attend!
Suggested donation is $250
Donation of any size is appreciated
Or simply RSVP to: info@risemagazine.org
Wish Rise a Happy Anniversary!
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Launching Rise & Shine to Invest in Parent Leadership: In 2019 and 2020, Rise ran its first two sessions of our 18-week, parent-led leadership program to prepare 10 parents each year to lead at Rise and in aligned community justice movements. Rise & Shine supports healing and community and builds knowledge, writing, public speaking and community organizing skills.
Current Rise & Shine Coordinator Teresa Bachiller, the former assistant director of CWOP, joined the staff.
Watch our 2019 … Read More
Investing in Reunification: In New York City, fewer than one-third of families reunify within one year of separation. Nationwide, only half of children ever return home. To support parents facing the trauma, stress, isolation and despair of family separation, Rise collaborated with dozens of parents, attorneys and frontline foster care staff to create informational handouts and videos for parents. Rise trains parent advocates, frontline staff and attorneys across NYC to share them with parents.
Visiting TIPS … Read More