Just Community
We bring people together to build community and change exclusionary narratives around poverty and incarceration.
Storytelling Workshop
We run a monthly Storytelling for Change Workshop series for justice-impacted people to turn their lived experiences into powerful narratives that drive change.
We engage in strategic communications and community engagement to change narratives and expand the reach of our work.
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What is Narrative Change?
At Community Spring, we build economic stability and collective power alongside impacted community members through our Just Income and Just Power programs. While this work creates essential pathways to stability and agency, we recognize that lasting change requires more than policy shifts alone.
Without transforming deeply held cultural narratives, even the most progressive policies can be undermined or reversed. This understanding drives our commitment to narrative change work, which strengthens and sustains our community's power.
Storytelling Workshop
Storytelling for Change
Storytelling shapes our perceptions, our reality, and the world around us. We have been told too many stories about people who have been incarcerated, but how many stories have actually come from those with lived experience?
We know firsthand that without transforming deeply held cultural narratives and beliefs, even progressive policies can be reversed. Storytelling is truly an instrument of justice and systemic change.
That's why we created Storytelling for Change.
This two-part workshop helps participants turn lived experiences into powerful narratives that drive change. Meeting on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of every month, the program offers two 2-hour sessions where participants gain tools to connect personal stories to systemic issues and inspire action.
Communications
We engage in strategic communications to change narratives and expand the reach of our work.
We utilize social media, video, digital ads, blogs, written publications, bus ads, and earned media to build awareness and change minds.
Together, we can end the cycle of poverty and mass incarceration.
Mass incarceration is both a cause and effect of poverty. Community Spring is responding by expanding access to income, advocating for policy change, and shifting harmful narratives.