Impacting Tualatin Youth Today

Partnering with Tualatin Together is investing in the youth of our community. 

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our youth so acutely and Tualatin Together's desire to ensure we support youth living to their full potential is building blocks through programs like this to ensure we achieve that goal.

Elementary Gratitude Pumpkin Journal Project

In 2020, Tualatin Together launched individual resilience building activities for our approximately 1,000 K-5th grade students in partnership with the amazing staff and parent leaders at Byrom, Bridgeport and Tualatin Elementary Schools. The Gratitude Pumpkin Journal Project was born out of a desire to serve teachers and elementary students as they navigated a crucial social emotional learning skill - self control.  Self control is a key resilience building skill and the earlier a person learns to recognize their triggers and learn healthy coping mechanisms that will serve them  Today, a donation of $50 can sponsor one of the almost 60, Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms (approximately 23 students + teacher = 1,400 students/teachers plus each of their support systems). Please help us keep this program going and growing.  Our desire to increase our impact to a platform for our middle school and high school students to participate is in our reach, again with your generous giving. Each student/staff member receives a pumpkin to take home, a sharpie to write on their gratitude pumpkin, a journal with 30 activities that can be done in or out of the school setting.  This project is offered in both English and Spanish. To learn more about this program, please reach out to us at info@tualatintogether.org. This year our extra pumpkins were donated to a local animal sanctuary through the help of volunteers. It was rewarding for the projects gratitude to reach outside the walls of a school building and impact in an unexpected way.  

Middle School Family Impact Projects

2020 also brought opportunities to engage and serve over 100 middle school students and families by offering skill building activities for students and families to engage together and be empowered to have meaningful connection through conversation and serving others.  We were able to bring these Family Impact Projects through a one time grant from Washington County Healthy & Human Services. We desire to continue these family focused activities with your help.  Today, with a donation of $50 you can sponsor a family resilience building activity for 4 families.  Activities include things such as painting, baking and more. 

Tualatin High School's StandUp Youth Coalition

High school years are hard.  

What do you want to be when you grow up? Which college are you going to? What kind of car do you drive? What are your grades? Who are you dating? Where did you go on vacation?

StandUp Tualatin's mission is to change the norms around youth substance use as a source of coping and encourage healthy behaviors, choices, supports and relationships. Your support of $50 today, helps our student coalition to gather data, become educated on trauma informed practices that include diversity, equity and inclusion to shape their campaigns and support activities and to implement them.  With over 25 active youth members seeking to make a real difference in their community; your support today will help them move forward their plans for a drug & alcohol free post winter formal and prom party, celebration events post finals and other smaller campaigns that provide education, resources and support for substance misuse and mental health supports.  StandUp also looks for ways to serve the community.  Their favorite activity so far this year has been to partner with the Winona Grange #271 to put together boxes and help stuff and prepare to send almost 80 boxes of seeds going out to community gardens, school gardens and many other places in order to have vegetable & flower seeds for low to no cost. Our youth of all ages need us. Consider being part of the movement to ensure our kids live their best lives.

Community Wide Impact

Tualatin Together partners with many fantastic organizations both for profit and non-profits to achieve our mission of empowering, engage, inspire and serving the youth of our community in order for them to live their best lives.  With the help of these partners we have been able to share Chris Herren's message (former NBA player) to over 6,000 people, support the Dressed To Dream program which provides free homecoming, winter formal and prom attire to ALL Tigard Tualatin School District high school students, participate in the bi-annual Drug Take Back Days, Community Events such as Starry Night, Viva Tualatin, etc. and to engage in our own events. Our first Wicked Wellness Costume Fun Run was this year!  We look forward to many more. Our 8th Annual Community Champions Event (virtual) on 1/26/22 is coming up. There are ways for you to engage in our work at all levels. Join the conversation today and help us impact tomorrow.