A successful day of healing!

A Healing Day of Remembrance
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Growing Up Boulder (GUB), Boulder's Child- and Youth-Friendly City Initiative, hosted a youth-led event for all-ages to honor our community’s losses and recovery from the Table Mesa (King Soopers) tragedy last March 2021. 

GUB received a grant from the Community Foundation Boulder County's Boco Crisis Fund to listen to children and youth about how they wished to heal from this mass shooting incident and then help them co-create healing opportunities for themselves and other young people. In the first part of this year-long project, we organized a Youth Leadership Healing Committee. Twenty-six, very diverse (in terms of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and lived experience) youth applied to be on the committee, and 16-18 young people have routinely participated in healing sessions and event planning. This event was the culmination of their efforts.
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GUB worked in close collaboration with Mayamotion Healing and CU's Renée Crown Wellness Institute to design the healing and planning sessions for youth. We had the support of the leadership at BVSD and Boulder Strong Resource Center/Mental Health Partners as well. At the event itself, our team collected information from children and teens about how they wish to heal, and this information will then help us design the second part of the project.
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We had 200 people of all ages in attendance. Participants took part in interactive healing opportunities through art, writing and community connection. Stations included, painting puzzles pieces, writing letters to loved ones, drawing hearts, an altar, children's arts and craft, massage therapy, acu-detox, and more.
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Thank you to all who made this event happen!
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Growing Up Boulder's Vision and Mission

Using participatory planning methods with young people, Growing Up Boulder's vision is to lead a global movement in child-friendly cities, resulting in better communities for all. Growing Up Boulder's mission is to empower young people with opportunities for inclusion, influence, and deliberation on local issues that affect their lives. ​

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