Youth Archives - Compassion Games International

Films tell stories of compassion at Seattle event

by Joey Crotty | Oct 29, 2012 | Leagues, Partners, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 If you let a community tell its own stories, what do you hear? During Seattle’s Compassion Games, independent filmmakers brought us stories of a neighborhood coming together around a community garden, a community formed around an all-night diner, and a community of dancers that became family for a Seattle newcomer. These and about a dozen other films were shown during an event called, “A Story Runs Through It, ” which was hosted by...

Help plant a garden of compassion at Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club

by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth

By Jon Ramer The Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club needs you. Dedicated school chef Patrice Freeman shops the sales to feed her hungry troupe, but she has a dream, to feed her boys and girls with fresh fruit and vegetables from a bountiful school garden. She has the space, and she’s looking for donations of soil and the materials to create eight to 10 large planters for the garden and fill them with rich planting soil for the 2013 spring and summer. The club is budget challenged....

‘Kindness School’ builds strong academics with compassion

by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Puget Sound Community School, Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 Strong academics are a byproduct of a good school. That’s the model for Puget Sound Community School, which operates on the premise that students learn best when they are supported in their passions. And yes, they do take classes like pre-calculus and physics. Teaching compassion and kindness are an essential part of that education, says founder Andy Smallman, who founded the school 19 years ago with his wife Melinda Shaw. Hear students and teachers...

Hope and pain through a social worker’s eyes

by Joey Crotty | Oct 26, 2012 | Stories of Compassion, Uncategorized, Ways to Play, Youth

By Martha Hopler As I head to the home of J. I feel a sense of urgency today is the day. Today is the day I have waited for, for some time. I have waited for the moment she is ready to head to re-hab. I am very aware of the choices I have made to allow her to continue to care for her children while she chooses to use drugs and alcohol to escape the realities of her difficult life. As the social worker I live in the ever present tension of what is right for her kids and what she wants…. ...

Looking for compassionate solutions to gun violence

by Joey Crotty | Oct 17, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Faith and Interfaith, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 Why should you care about gun violence? “It has no race, no creed, no age barriers. If it hasn’t affected you yet, it will if it continues.” Stark words from one man interviewed in this array of community voices recorded at an anti-gun violence rally at Seattle’s Martin Luther King Memorial Park. “It needs to be talked about among your family and friends,” says a police officer. “We have to work to get the community...

Smarter & more compassionate schools? Yes we can!

by Joey Crotty | Oct 16, 2012 | Compassionate Seattle, Education - Schools, Leagues, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 Build more compassionate schools by combining students of different ages in the classroom, and fully integrating schools, says a 17-year-old high school senior who has written a book advocating overhaul of the educational system. In this video produced by What’s Good 206, Nikhil Goyal also advises educators to start treating students respectfully and invite them into the conversation about their education. Directed by AUSTIN WILLIAMS Hosted by STARLA...

Operation Compassion: How to radically change the story

by Joey Crotty | Oct 15, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206, Youth

Submitted by What’s Good 206 It was a chance encounter with a homeless man that that led University of Washington student Daniel Nguyen to start Operation Compassion last year. It began when an apparently homeless man, a regular Daniel had seen for weeks, boarded his bus and asked him for spare change. Like many of us, Daniel’s first response was, “I don’t have any.” But it didn’t end there, and what Daniel Nguyen found out about Reggie, the man on the bus,...

What’s good? Volunteers in record numbers show compassion

by Joey Crotty | Oct 9, 2012 | Education - Schools, Stories of Compassion, United Way, Ways to Play, WhatsGood206

Submitted by What’s Good ‘206’? Some painted walls, others cleaned a preschool inside and out. Others pulled yard cleanup duty. All told, there were more than 12,000 of them — people who came out on Sept. 21, United Way of King County’s biggest ever Day of Caring and the launch of the Compassion Games. Take a look by the numbers: Total volunteers: 12,122 Total companies represented: 138 Total projects completed: 448 Total hours of labor: 59,737 Total value of...

“I Wasn’t Arrested That Day, I Was Really Rescued!”

by JonRamer | Sep 9, 2012 | Faith and Interfaith, Stories of Compassion, Youth

Here is a story of compassion that is so needed at this time as we support our police force to think differently about how they relate to their fellow citizens. Imagine if it was your job to arrest people. How would you relate to the people you’re arresting? What does it mean to treat those who are being arrested with compassion? A few weeks ago I was witness to an uncanny event that helped shed light on these questions. While attending a meeting focused on the Safe Communities program,...

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