Members of the Southeast Network SafetyNet program with Boys and Girls Clubs of King County have a moment of prayer before updating us on their efforts
Nearly 2 weeks after a mass shooting at an event aimed at community safety event in South Seattle, the people behind that event made their first return to that place.
Members of the Southeast Network SafetyNet program with Boys and Girls Clubs of King County say they have a lot to do to heal, but they also say they still have a job to do to maintain the culture, they have helped rebuild in the Rainier Beach neighborhood.
Program director, Marty Jackson, says the whole point of the community healing space is to provide their neighbors, a place to come together, and sometimes to find what they’re missing, starting with a hot meal, but she says right now, they need to take care of their own. “That takes precedence,” Jackson says, “because if we don’t care about each other, and if we don’t tend to each other and support each other, especially those who are in this work on the ground every day, trying to make a difference, trying to ensure that our neighborhood is safe.”
Jackson also Northwest Newsradio she and her team need time, and they haven’t set a date yet, but she promises the Friday night community gatherings will return.
