Youth Passageways

Restoring Lifeways will also sponsor conferences retreats and gatherings approximately 12 per year initially throughout the United States on topics related to cultural regeneration its efficacy and importance as part of comprehensive youth and community development efforts. These gatherings varying in size depending on specific outcomes and organizational capacity will both seek to provide training and educational experiences for participants as well as provide an opportunity to cultivate broader public awareness through engagement with the general public in the locale in which they are held. These are and will be funded through individual donations foundation grants and gathering fees. These activities are and will be funded through individual donations fees for service and foundation grants. They are accomplished by W2 staff and a roster of 1099 contractors.

Through education and partnership we are weaving a more resourced and interconnected network of relations between our fiscal sponsees grantees and collaborators. We serve as a hub for resources information and wisdom-flow between different parts of our network. This includes: Network gatherings workshops and online education and training opportunities Media that supports and spreads the word about culturally rooted ceremonial practices from our partners promoting cross cultural protocols dismantling oppressive systems and paradigms and re-indigenizing cultural practices and ceremonies Connecting practitioners with each other and to our web of culture builders through our Education and Consulting Directory Mutual aid and resource redistribution including our Resilience and Reparations Funds Relational tending and web-weaving across our network to support a more interconnected network of relations