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RISE: Healthy for Life invites you to help support our neighbors--it takes a community. Help us prevent school and work absences, embarrassment, and hardship by donating to provide period products for free in our region.

RISE partners with about 15 organizations to provide period products to their clients, and we provide them at all of our programming and events as well. And people are soooooo excited to get free period products!

In the past 6 month we have given away more than 3,000 period products, and demand is still growing.

Please donate to prevent school/work absences and shame while lightening the burden for people with periods—and their families!

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Join RISE’s Kayla Mandrigues for Discover Your Senses, an experiential workshop on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 from 2-3:30 p.m. in RISE’s classroom. RISE is located at 2700 S. Roan St., Suite 300B, in Johnson City, TN.

This workshop is free and open to adults and teens of all genders.

Registration is required. Click here to register.

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RISE: Healthy for Life will present part of the Consent is Like Pizza program it developed with the ETSU Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic and A Step Ahead Tri-Cities as part of this event. If your organization serves kids in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia, register to attend this event click here.

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Stellar Sex Ed facilitator training is next Tuesday and Wednesday. This training is free! Deadline to register is end of day on Saturday Jan 20. All the details and registration here!

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This Community Member Survey is a comprehensive data collection effort to identify the strengths, challenges, and opportunities to address and improve health in the Appalachian Highland Region. Thank you for helping us identify the most pressing issues the Appalachian Highland Region is facing. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. 

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This training will enable facilitators to provide Stellar Sex Ed to middle- and high-school youth and adults AND to "stellarize" other curricula so it is more affirming and trauma-informed while adhering to local and state restrictions.

Facilitator training will cover curriculum content as well as facilitation best practices and tips for making any sex ed more accessible to all neurotypes, genders, colors, abilities, and orientations. Electronic access to the curriculum is included for trainees who complete the course successfully.

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Hello, friends of all ages! Thanks so much for your support and parrticipation. We are cancelling the last story time due to a scheduling conflict. We hope to see everyone in the Spring for an Our Whole Lives series for kids in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. This program will discuss bodies and families, feelings and babies, consent and identity—stay tuned for updates!

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If you are interested in hosting this program for your organization or business, please contact us.

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Have you been struggling to navigate this new world of changing pronouns, new gender identities, and orientation? Or have you struggled to explain these things to family and friends? We’ve got you!!!

Supper provided; childcare provided with preregistration by 5 p.m. on Nov. 9.

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All our fall offerings are free for all, and many include childcare, food, and books. Click through to the full event listings for details and registration when required.

• Drag Bingo Fundraiser at Newbies

• Family Fun Open House

• Queer and Friends Crafts and Games

• Dress-up Story Time

• Gender 101

• Pelvic Floor 101

• Queer Sex Safety

• How to be an Askable Adult

• Gender & Orientation: Changing the Narrative

• Navigating Trans-ness

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RISE is hosting two sessions of Stellar Sex Ed this summer! These programs are both free but do require registration, and the high school program includes lunch each day.

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Thank you to everyone who supports RISE every day, all year round—you all know who you are and we are so grateful. We honestly would not exist without you all! Specifically we’d like to shower a little thanks on folx who have helped through this transition.

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Get a sneak preview of some items featured in our upcoming Stellar Celebration silent auction, May 20 from 4-9 p.m.

Last chance to register for Stellar Sex Ed facilitator training—register before 5 p.m. on Monday, April 24.

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Stellar Facilitator training is a great way to enhance your facilitation game. Stellar approaches are affirming and inclusive and more accessible for neurodivergent folx than many curricula. Join us for a space-age approach to sex ed!

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Individuals, educators, and organizations who serve youth are invited to join us for a summit that will build skills, forge community connections, and introduce new ways of thinking about adolescent health.

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Need an abortion and don’t know where to go or how to pay for it? There’s an app (well, a website) for that. You have options.

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RISE has a new home and are working on spiffing it up—and you can help!

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We know things are hopping at this time of year, but here are some easy ways you can help RISE continue it’s work—and maybe even make your life a little simpler!

• RISE t-shirts as holiday gifts

• Donations in lieu of gifts

• Make RISE: Healthy for Life your Amazon Smile beneficiary for a year

• etc.

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