Youth Rise @ Circle Faith Future is a group of like-minded individuals and community members that seek to provide quality, innovative, and stable programming and services to court-involved youth. Our motto is “listen, listen, love, love” which supports our core values of listening, cultivating community, anti-racism awareness, and practices of peacemaking. Please consider making a gift to this life-changing program.
Volunteer mentors provide the backbone of leading youth to successful outcomes. Research shows that if youth have just one reliable adult in their life, their outcomes are much more successful. Mentors are asked to commit to regular schedules and time spent with youth, and participate in trainings including, trauma informed care, racial justice, intercultural development, mentoring incarcerated youth, and self-care. The efforts of youth mentors can make a tremendous difference in the life of a young person. If you are interested in supporting this effort as a mentor or through community support, please contact Rev. Terri Stewart. To learn a little bit more about how mentors feel about their work, please view the stories playlist on YouTube.
We are currently looking for volunteers to offer services as mentors and group leaders in religious, spiritual, and secular contexts at Echo Glen Children's Center or at King County Juvenile Detention. Any who volunteer will need to pass a state-issued background check and it is recommended that folks get their vaccinations! Incarceration settings are high-risk environments for transmitting viruses, so safety and self-care is important along with protecting our vulnerable youth.
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. - Steven Spielberg
Additionally, we are working closely with Friends of Echo Glen Children's Center (Juvenile Detention) to provide life-skill mentoring programs and service projects co-created with the incarcerated youth at Echo Glen. See more here.
Circle Faith Future is an affiliate of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership and an official Technical Assistance Provider of the National Mentoring Resource Center,
a project of MENTOR and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
a project of MENTOR and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Trainings:
Trainings are offered throughout the year to program volunteers, detention and juvenile justice employees and members of the community, including trainings covering:
Intercultural Competency Development:
Rev. Terri Stewart is a Qualified Assessor for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI measures intercultural competency which is the ability to positively engage similarities and differences in values, beliefs, and practice within your own cultural group and other cultural groups. Intercultural competency is developed just as any other skills are, through learning and engagement.
The IDI has been cross-culturally validated in over 30 countries. It is rooted in measuring three aspects of social development:
Religious service providers and mentorship relies on building trust and connection across what can sometimes be very different development processes and lived experiences. As such, cultural competency training equips us to be better able to hear, learn, adapt, and provide support as we engage in practices that restore and reconnect our communities. Best of all, cultural competency work will make for better anti-racist, anti-oppression, racial justice community organizations! If you are interested in an assessment for yourself, your group or organization, contact us.
Further Resources:
Book: Peacemaking Circles: From Conflict to Community by Kay Pranis, Barry Williams, Mark Wedge
Article: Seattle Times: King County tries counseling, self-reflection instead of jail for teens
Facebook Posting: Case #1
The Roadmap to Intercultural Competence using the IDI
Trainings are offered throughout the year to program volunteers, detention and juvenile justice employees and members of the community, including trainings covering:
- trauma informed care,
- racial justice,
- intercultural development,
- mentoring incarcerated youth, and
- vicarious trauma & self-care
Intercultural Competency Development:
Rev. Terri Stewart is a Qualified Assessor for the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). The IDI measures intercultural competency which is the ability to positively engage similarities and differences in values, beliefs, and practice within your own cultural group and other cultural groups. Intercultural competency is developed just as any other skills are, through learning and engagement.
The IDI has been cross-culturally validated in over 30 countries. It is rooted in measuring three aspects of social development:
- Other-centered: the ability to center the needs of other people
- Engagement-centered: the ability to be fully present with other people
- Development-centered: the work begins where a person’s development is rather than where others think they are
Religious service providers and mentorship relies on building trust and connection across what can sometimes be very different development processes and lived experiences. As such, cultural competency training equips us to be better able to hear, learn, adapt, and provide support as we engage in practices that restore and reconnect our communities. Best of all, cultural competency work will make for better anti-racist, anti-oppression, racial justice community organizations! If you are interested in an assessment for yourself, your group or organization, contact us.
Further Resources:
Book: Peacemaking Circles: From Conflict to Community by Kay Pranis, Barry Williams, Mark Wedge
Article: Seattle Times: King County tries counseling, self-reflection instead of jail for teens
Facebook Posting: Case #1
The Roadmap to Intercultural Competence using the IDI
