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RYSE encourages members and staff to meet folks where they are at with a caring, mindful, and empathetic heart.

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RYSE encourages members and staff to explore new opportunities and practices grounded in liberation.

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RYSE encourages everyone to take collective responsibility in maintaining an accessible, safe, clean, and healthy environment for us all to work, connect, create, and play.

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RYSE is a space for youth, staff, and community members to grow into the leaders we want to be in our community.

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RYSE loves when we can strengthen our community by building empowering and meaningful relationships with new people.

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At RYSE, we have the power/responsibility to co-create an environment where everyone belongs.. Therefore, it is our collective responsibility to ensure we support ourselves and each other in feeling safe and comfortable at the Center and in the community.

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RYSE encourages everyone to resolve conflicts in ways that-build relationships, promotes community, and allows for healthy struggle.  RYSE commits to supporting and facilitating restorative processes.

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RYSE believes that we can strengthen our community by holding ourselves and each other accountable to our actions and their impact with love, empathy, and compassion.

Be open to understanding when you may have caused harm even if it was not your intention to do so.

Accountable =

Specify how members can be held accountable. Members brought up how will they know they did harm.

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RYSE is a safe and neutral space for ALL youth who walk through our doors, regardless of where you come from and/or what communities you are connected to.We are welcoming of people’s gender/racial/ethnic expressions through clothing, language, and other creative outlets . We want to create a community where people’s identity/community is welcomed regardless of their appearance/fashion, language.

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RYSE understands that we all have different ways of coping and moving through our day to day life, and that using drugs or alcohol may be ways we cope with stress and distress.

RYSE will not ban or turn any member away for coping in these ways.

However, we may need to have a conversation and plan with you if this coping is having an impact on you, others in the space, or the space itself.

RYSE asks that everyone do their best to refrain from coming to RYSE if you are high, buzzed, or drunk from carrying any substances into or at RYSE.

No exchange of sale of drugs or alcohol is allowed at RYSE. This will result in an immediate break for the day and/or until a plan to resolve and support is created

RYSE staff welcome and encourages one-on-one conversations if you would like support for yourself or someone else.

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Due to the COVID pandemic, physical touch and physical interaction between staff, members, and visitors must be limited. Physical distancing measures are in effect until further notice.  The most updated information on our COVID protocols can be found on our website, social media, and throughout the space.  You can also connect with any staff for information.

RYSE encourages members and staff to show physical and verbal appreciation for each other in ways that promotes safety, choice, and respects individuals, our physical space, and center at large.  Honor folks’ preferred forms of physical affection (hug - we will bring back when we are COVID safe), high-five, fist bumps, etc)

Practice consent for yourself and others. Consent is giving permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something.

Consent is:

Ongoing - anyone can change their mind on what they are interested in doing at any time

Freely given - Saying yes without pressure of manipulation

Specific - Saying yes to one act doesn’t mean you’ve said yes to others or even the same act again.

Informed - Not deceiving or lying.  For example, if someone says they’ll use a condom and then they don’t, there isn’t full consent. If someone says they will wear their mask and then they don’t, that is not practicing consent.

Enthusiastic - It’s about wanting to do something,  not feeling like you have to or should do something.

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While at RYSE we will honor and set boundaries with ryse members, staff and community

While at RYSE we honor community violence (   ) and its impact on us/our space, we encourage each other to slow down to hold, grieve, mourn, rest, to feel...

We honor that youth are people first, before they are ryse members, students, youth interns, our health and wellness come first

While at RYSE we will honor everyone’s health and wellness/healing journeys and will respect their healing practices and support youth who may feel burnout.

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RYSE makes space for everyone to unlearn oppressive language like Racial slurs, gendered violence, homophobic, name calling, bullying, religous, cultural, misogynistic,  xenophobic  language that is meant to keep our communities divided.

RYSE is a multilingual home, we welcome all spoken languages in the space and community If  you’re unsure of….

We encourage you to ask questions and to step into (un)comfortable, challenging and needed conversations

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Its important that RYSE see people building new relationships for the sake of the people. I think RYSE secretly hold value of seeing others getting connected with things and people they care about and are comfortable with. I agree going at your own pace can make this process easier and less forced.

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I can see working on an overdue outline for a personal project as an “healthy struggle.” I.e. Im creating a choreography for a song and I've finished my dance, now i cant decide between adding others into my dance to share this moment with. The struggle would be finding new people and teaching them the dance, hoping they are reliable.

Positive intentions with an unpredictable outcome. Maybe?

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Yes we’re all leaders 😁

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Yes so we all feel safe

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I agree making everyone feel safe to learn new things, feel included and safe in general is important!

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I think it will be important for staff, members and people who have been affected by second hand drug or alcohol abuse, to share what makes them feel unsafe or concerned. Find ways to build a trusting relationship.

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I'm not sure if the youth understands what power and leadership they hold and how they can apply those qualities into their everyday life. From my background, I didn't know, so this might connect with other new members as well. To get some break through, defining what power and leadership is can help them understand what it is to be considered a leader. Then reminding the youth that everything they do within or outside RYSE is an act of leadership and power. As long as they are striving to make positive and progressive change, they are powerful leaders.

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I agree, it's important for staff to have good membership service 

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I agree, it's important for staff to have good membership service 

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Agree but also there should be staff that's sole purpose is to encourage people that are shy through different processes. 

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Agree but also there should be staff that's sole purpose is to encourage people that are shy through different processes. 

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I agree - RYSE should be one of the safest places to go for the youth. 

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I agree - RYSE should be one of the safest places to go for the youth. 

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RYSE should emphasize how becoming a member can give you opportunities to make money or have work experience that you can put on your resume. 

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RYSE should emphasize how becoming a member can give you opportunities to make money or have work experience that you can put on your resume. 

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Kind of linked to the "Be Considerate of yourself, others and the space" agreement. 

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Kind of linked to the "Be Considerate of yourself, others and the space" agreement. 

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I agree, some people might say something offensive without thinking and they should be educated and shown why they shouldn't say those type of things.

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I agree, some people might say something offensive without thinking and they should be educated and shown why they shouldn't say those type of things.