Help YourWords STL Tell Stories and Build Bridges
Through tutoring, creative writing workshops, and collaborative projects, YourWords STL provides creative and courageous spaces for St. Louis youth.
Your support makes possible our efforts to provide tutoring and workshops in such locations as Urban Strategies' Renaissance Place as well as Clay Community Resource Center, in partnership with SLPS, SLU, and LinkSTL. It will also assist us in expanding our collaborative Crossing Delmar program. Please help YourWords STL to continue amplifying the voices of those who are marginalized, by race, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, or abilities.
Mission: We use tutoring, creative writing workshops, and collaborative writing projects to amplify the voices of St. Louis youth.
Vision: We are committed to bridging racial, cultural, and economic divides, by honing the ability of people to tell their stories, while providing opportunities for the community to listen.
“Feeling listened to and understood changes our physiology; being able to articulate a complex feeling, and having our feelings recognized, lights up our limbic brain and creates an “aha moment.”
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk MD