SpokaneFāVS
Whitworth University and World Vision are teaming together this fall to fight poverty and injustice issues in the Spokane area. The Targeting Hope day-long conference will be Nov. 12 at the university, 300 West Hawthorne Road. Workshops include:
- U.S. Poverty and its Effect on Early Childhood Development
- Foundations for Community Transformation
- Community Youth Development: An Approach to Community Transformation
- A Discussion on Human Trafficking – Why Spokane Should Pay Attention
- Mapping Our Community Assets
- A Community Report Card on the Health of Spokane
- People of Faith Working in Community-Based Organizations
- Christian Educators in Non-Christian Education
- Youth-led Session: Community Engagement – A Call to Our Generation
- Understanding Youth and Child Well-Being
- Exegeting Your Neighborhood
- Youth Pastor’s Roundtable – A Discussion on Transformational Youth Ministry
- Public Education in Spokane – Underperforming Schools…What We Can Do About It
- Economic Development – Deep Change in Your Community
- Development or Relief? A Social Justice Conversation for Pastors
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
