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With over 700 people in attendance, Two Feathers hosted its first community-wide Easter egg hunt. This event followed two years of isolation and too few community events due to the pandemic. As several community members expressed, “this is exactly what we needed.” The egg hunt featured over 3,500 eggs filled with treasures which were quickly collected by kids young and

On Saturday, April 2nd, families gathered at Two Feathers’ garden where they played in the dirt, painted flower pots, listened to stories by Ernie Albers, and enjoyed fresh smoothies. Families received strawberry starts that they could take home and plant.

Over 40 people attended a movie night in Orleans where they enjoyed pizza and snacks and the movie Turning Red. While some were watching the movie, others were outside playing basketball.

Our Two Feathers youth employees visited Cal Poly Humboldt!! While there they stopped by Dr. Kaitlin Reed’s “Introduction to Native American Studies” course! Of course, there was time for fun!

A group of our youth employees, in our Youth Employment Program, recently learned more about land restoration and cultural burns with Joe Hostler in the Hoopa Valley. After working with the youth, Joe expressed “I was impressed how much they already knew about natural resources and ecological restoration. It was an honor to meet them.”

The Ripple Effect: An Integrative Framework for Enhancing Trauma-Informed Practice Across Systems This workshop presented an integrative framework for understanding and communicating across systems about how trauma can affect a child, a family, and a system. Chandra Ghosh Ippen is a child psychologist and children’s book author. She is currently the Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at

Such an empowering day at our Native Women’s Self Defense class! Our facilitator, Tami Lara (Yurok) of Fighting to be Fit, taught us so much; not only about how to protect ourselves but how to be confident, how to support one another, and how to be fighters. Thank you, Tami, for a wonderful day!

Connecting with our community is important and this year we celebrated Halloween outside! Community members joined us at Two Feathers dressed up in costumes, trick-or-treated from decorated cars, and played games. With over 100 people joining us, there were a lot of smiles and laughter. Fun was had by all!

(From the North Coast Journal) Two Feathers Native American Health Services will be hosting seven free virtual forums (open to the public with registration) on the subject: Is Technology Damaging our Native Youth? The forums will feature national and international experts and are expected to last approximately one to two hours each. In a press release, Dr. Virgil Moorehead Jr., Executive Director with Two

Virtual roundtable focuses on need for better education outcomes for Native youth (From the North Coast Journal) Speaking at a virtual roundtable called to discuss the systemic failures of local school districts to help Native students succeed, as detailed in a recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Humboldt State University Native American Studies Chair Cutcha