Interfaith Council For Peace & Justice

Shelter & Community Care: Organized educational and advocacy opportunities related to our community safety, emergency sheltering, and affordable housing. Supported development of local program to provide peer-counseling to unhoused and economically insecure community members. Developed project to amplify voices of those most impacted by community violence and homelessness. Convened community conversations and trainings to understand and participate in the county and local budgeting process. A key project has been Home for Healing, a space to co-create a central space of community safety, where community members gain tools for coping with the unimaginable alongside a network of love and empathy; a group of organizations who practice collective imagining, designing solutions and enacting them.

Education & Community Building: Hosted films, panel discussions, community discussions, workshops about civic participation in local decision-making, e.g. how to provide public comment and get involved locally (regardless of issue or position on the issues).

Human Rights Organizing: We organized faith communities in issues such as human rights, housing, religious understanding and respect. We provided support to community members in need to basic resources for health and food. We provided community trainings and workshops for nonviolence, violence de-escalation, and harm reduction.