THE VILLAGE
There are 30 organization that make up the Liberated Village that impact educational systems and environments through leading staff professional development related to anti-racist practices/pedagogy and build strong relationships with scholars and families. These best practices lead to a more positive school climate and culture.
Learn more about each organization and check-out their respective website for more information.
Hazelwood Elementary School
Ignite every learner's internal drive to achieve their hopes and dreams, nurturing them as agents of change within their own learning trajectory.
The Joseph Project
We want our scholars to experience love, support, and to feel empowered to break cycles and overcome systemic racism.
Seattle King County NAACP
Our Why is to assure parents and scholars know their history, understand that they can shape their future by gaining knowledge.
Inspirational Workshops - B.R.A.V.E.
We collaborate with youth of color in their learning and development journey—providing experiences and resources for critical thinking, exploring voice, deepening brilliance, and contributing to the health and renewal of their environments, communities, and reshaping systems.
Community Network Council
We believe our scholars deserve an opportunity to excel in school, without dealing with unfair treatment that stems from fear and misunderstanding.
Partners In Education Reform
Creating partnerships with teachers, parents, and scholars to support the development of a welcoming school environment which involves using a racial equity lens.
South End Stories
Our mission is to ignite joy and justice in classrooms and communities using arts-based learning, anti-racist education, and social activism.
Community Passageways
Restoration. To eliminate juvenile detention while reducing the quantity and disproportionality of youth arrests and filings, we use a community-based intervention model to support youth at every stage in the justice process—from prevention to detention.
Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
WeAPP
We.APP exists to bridge the engagement and opportunity gap by reaching every child that is silenced in the back of the classroom and inspire them to break their silence and step forward to become the leaders in the front.
WA-BLOC
We dismantle systemic racism, disrupt the school to prison pipeline,
and re-engage scholars by immersing them in transformative education, restorative practices, and revolutionary social action.
Snoqualmie Valley School District
Educate all Snoqualmie Valley children to prepare them for college, career, and citizenship.
Seattle Cares Mentoring Movement
Our “Why” is not only to understand how racial trauma, equity, and social justice issues impact school and community environments, our core programming to our scholars is to deliver our culturally competent, trauma-informed curriculum supported by a critical mass of caring Black adults who mentor them through trauma and toward transformation.
African on the Eastside (AOE)
Our youth no longer need to ignore, apologize for, nor downplay their unique gifts, families, or culture in order to access an excellent education; they are an active and vibrant part of the education system and will not be silenced.
The Imagine Institute
We are committed to working with early childhood educators (ECEs) to understand systemic racism and bias and how it impacts the children in their care, while learning strategies to mitigate the violence of racism on children.
Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association
We are dedicated to preserving and increasing affordable housing, restoring the natural environment, and providing such vital resources as arts and cultural opportunities, education and youth leadership programs for our neighbors.
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle
The Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle (ULMS) leads through a healing centered engagement to foster supports for both the youth and their families and connect them with direct services that will enable them to thrive.
Unleash The Brilliance
Our strong collaboration and our interests in each other's method of engagement for addressing systemic challenges helped us pierce through the veil of inequities and establish a presence that empowered our scholars and their parents.
Dimmitt Middle School
At Dimmitt we empower each other to be compassionate citizens and daring thinkers. We value equity, innovation, and rigor... College ready, career ready, ready to lead the future.
Federal Way Public Schools
To surround scholars with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Walk Away City Collaborative
We were formed to inspire transformation by encouraging individuals to walk away from negativity, thus leveraging the support, expertise and resources of other likeminded influencers through community collaboration.
Dispute Resolution Center of King County
The Dispute Resolution Center of King County opens pathways to understanding and solving conflict.
White Center Community Development Association
We believe that transformational change can happen only when communities are guiding the process for this to happen. We are committed to addressing institutionalized racism and removing barriers that allow access to decision making and program implementation for support to individuals and families.
Restore-Assemble-Produce (RAP)
R.A.P. envisions that now is the time our youth and families can and will realize their power to determine their hope and a future as their destiny to overcome the historic scars and barriers of racism.
El Centro de la Raza
El Centro has been committed to building Dr. King's Beloved Community since 1972. Centering racial equity, justice and advocacy for La Raza (all people).
Glover EmpowerMentoring
Through holistic case management and mentoring every youth and young adult is empowered to be principled, responsible, critical thinkers who affect positive change in their communities.
Central Area Youth Association
We say, why not remove the barriers of social, economic, and systemic injustice, when we know that every child should have the chance by right, and entitled to reach their full potential which will surely change the trajectory of our world and community for the better.
Bridging Cultural Gaps
We empower youth and/or families to build listening to learn skills by creating opportunities to foster a community and shared responsibility to care and support each other.
J.J. Birth to 5
We provide access to quality birth to five programs for the children and families from the communities of Black Diamond and Enumclaw.
