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Today is national voter registration day! Click the link below to update your registration or to get text reminders about the election
https://registerwa.com/soar

We talk a lot about mental health for adults but what about our children. There are lots of different feelings going on especially this year as it relates to virtual learning and COVID-19 social distancing. Here is a wonderful book that can help the younger ones cope, titled "B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings" from author Melissa Boyd B is for Breathe

Seattle, Bellevue, other King County schools announce intentions to go online-only come fall. Have questions or concerns? Join Equity in Education Coalition at their upcoming lunch and learn on August 5th.

August 5th - Education in the time of COVID Lunch and Learn

Sign up here: https://eec-wa.org/event/education-in-the-time-of-covid/

Soar is excited to announce a new project! We are looking for middle and high school aged youth and adult caregivers to join our steering and planning committee. Help us bring active listening, radical vulnerability, and community healing to King County. If you are interested checkout the flyer below. The Application Deadline is August 11th ! https://tinyurl.com/ListeningToLearn

Yes! Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a Black-led community organization that is actively seeking to address racialized economic disparity in a neighborhood where communities of color experience a high risk of residential and cultural displacement.

News Gleam: Rainier Beach Action Coalition Receives $2.1 Million to Purchase Land for Food Innovation Center by Emerald Staff Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Friday that the City will provide $2.1 million to buy land for the future home of the Food Innovation Center in Rainier Beach, a project of the…

Join Janell Jordan and Tolu Taiwo TOMORROW as they create space for processing the gender-based violence, oppression and disrespect that Black femmes, girls, and women receive.

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/blackfemmehealing

*Note these sessions are open to Black femmes, girls, and women only.

Even with businesses slowly re-opening we must remember that COVID-19 cases across the the state are still rising. Wear your mask, not only to protect yourself but also your community.

Thank you!

Tomorrow at Jimi Hendrix Park! Join the Black Collective Voice as they read "How To Be An Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi.

Youth and young adult centered, with book giveaways.

Due to COVID-19 school closures, families may be eligible to get help with food benefits. These food benefits are called Pandemic EBT Emergency School Meals Program or P-EBT. See if you qualify below:
https://medium.com//what-is-pandemic-ebt-a7a086fcaf94

Soar's OYU Auburn Community Action Team has been delivering food to over 90 households in the past three weeks. If you or someone you know is needing groceries and lives in Auburn please stop by our distribution location below. No IDs required.

Where: 725 37th ST SE Auburn, WA 98002
When: Saturday(s) at 10:30 am

Soar is thrilled to welcome Devan Rogers (They/Them) to our team as the new Youth Voice Outreach Coordinator. Devan will be supporting Soar in our expanding youth development work.

Devan Rogers (They/Them), is a Black, Fat, Q***r, Artist who has lived in Seattle, (Coastal Salish & Duwamish Territories) for all 23 years of their life. Of those 23 years they have been an Anti-Racist Community Organizer for 8, their main focus being on prison abolition, and specifically the campaign, a campaign started by Youth Undoing Institutional Racism (YUIR) and spearheaded by Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC) which Devan is both a member in the community. Devan is proud to rep Skyway & Rainer Beach as their home. They are a Virgo, a video game nerd, and proud caretaker to a sweet and mischievous cat named Koda.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of was ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS. Hundreds of thousands of immigrant young people can continue to live and work, and contribute to their communities in the U.S.

Supreme Court blocks Trump from ending DACA in big win for Dreamers Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in the 5-4 decision, dealing a big legal defeat to President Trump on the issue of immigration.