Welcome to your SSP week
We are excited to welcome you to your SSP week with the 2021 staff! All activities are held on Zoom. Join from a computer, or from a smartphone or tablet (download the app.) In your account, you can edit your preferred name and pronouns (e.g. she/her/her, he/him/his, they/them/their, etc.) This is the main Zoom link you’ll need:
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 916 488 6442
Passcode: SSP
Daily Schedule
This year’s schedule is designed for flexibility. Join when you can and communicate with staff as needed! All times are Pacific Daylight Time.
The Monday morning welcome starts at 10:30am. All other days follow this schedule:
- 10:30-11am — Drop-In Breakfast Club (optional)
- 11-11:45am — Spiritual Sandwich
- 12:30-1:30pm — Lunch & Community Crossing (see below for resources to learn more from our speakers)
- 2-3pm — Choose an SSP Adventure (see options below)
- 3:30-4:30pm — Spiritual Program with Maggie, or Choose an SSP Adventure (see options below, Zoom link)
- 5-5:45pm — Spiritual Program with Ev (Zoom link)
- 6-6:30pm — Songtime live on Zoom daily, streamed to Facebook & Instagram on a rotating basis. Here is a PDF of the SSP Songbook! (optional)
- 8pm — Bedtime story: Monday, Wednesday, & Fridays on Instagram @SSPsummer2021 (optional)
Choose an SSP Adventure
Contact Staff
If you have questions, we are here to help and support you! We want to make this is a rewarding experience for all participants:
- Site Director: Jessica Parker, Jessica.Parker@SierraServiceProject.org
- SSP HQ Staff: SSPhq@SierraServiceProject.org or (916) 488-6441
- Staff Team: TeamJ@SierraServiceProject.org
- Site Director: Jessica Parker
- Spiritual Life Coordinator: Maggie Guekguezian
- Media Coordinator: Ronnie Swenson
- Activities Coordinators: Kate Grobey, Lo Reynolds, & Ashley Rios
Team Invitation Video
Fundraising for Chiloquin Food Pantry
SSP has been working with our partners in Chiloquin, Oregon since 2013, after previously serving in the area in 2004 and 2005. Members of the Klamath Tribes primarily live in this area-30 miles north of Klamath Falls. Over one-third of Chiloquin residents live below the federal poverty line. SSP has completed 89 projects in Chiloquin since 2015 repairing local homes and supporting community organizations. One such partner is the Chiloquin Food Pantry!
The Food Pantry is operated by the nonprofit organization Chiloquin Care Program, and serves 200 low-income Chiloquin residents every month, providing an important resource to the community. Since their original property sustained $10,000 worth of fire damage, the Food Pantry has struggled to raise funds to support the community, during a time when their services are critically needed.
As part of our four-week online program this summer, we are remotely supporting the impactful work happening in our partner communities all year-round. We invite you to join the Indigenous Communities Today Team in fundraising for the Chiloquin Food Pantry!
Text Food Pantry to (202) 858-1233 to give, or use the form to the right or button below! $5 provides about 50 pounds of food.
Team Invitation Video
Resources to Learn More from our Community Crossing Speakers
- Tuesday: Tolowa Dunes Stewards: Laura Morgan & Tara Dettmar
- Tolowa Dunes Stewards is a group of citizens dedicated to the restoration and conservation of the Tolowa Coast and education about these lands.
- Continue your education and deepen your understanding of the natural world around you with these additional resources.
- TDS on Facebook and Instagram
- Wednesday: Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve: Robin Echols-Booth and Marya Ahmad
- The reserve preserves, protects, and manages the natural and cultural resources of the Tijuana River Estuary by focusing on research and education with compatible recreation and resource use. The Reserve encompasses beach, dune, mudflat, salt marsh, riparian, coastal sage scrub, and upland habitats surrounded by the growing cities of Tijuana, Imperial Beach, and San Diego. Critical issues confronted by the Reserve include habitat conservation and restoration, endangered species management, management of the wastewater from Mexico, sediment management, and the integration of recreation. Video series highlighting individual plant and animal species within the estuary: Facebook or YouTube.
- View a map of the Reserve
- View this short film to find out why the Tijuana Estuary is so special.
- Thursday: Klamath Tribes: Will Hess
- Killing The Klamath (video, 21 min, 53 sec): The Klamath Tribes are fighting to save their sacred C’waam and Koptu fish before it’s too late.
- Friday: Diné community member: Silver Nez Perry
- Four historical novels written by Silver’s grandmother in a sweeping epic of one determined Navajo family’s efforts to persevere during the Long Walk, blends history, romance, conflict, culture, and family in a finely crafted story that is a true work of passion. Purchase at Salina Bookshelf, specializing in dual language books in Navajo/English and Hopi/English, as well as textbooks used to teach Navajo language in schools. Listen to the Her Land, Her Love Audio (free).
- Wednesday Week 1: Diné Policy Institute: Franklin Sage, Ph. D.
- The Diné Policy Institute is a research organization housed in Diné College in the center of the Navajo Nation. Their purpose is to identify important social and political questions facing the Navajo people and provide public research and informed perspectives on these. Their research regularly focuses on Navajo politics, Navajo governmental reform, natural resource use and energy politics, development, and social movements.
- Nihe’iina’ Náás Yiilyéél (Perpetuating Our Way of Life): Diné Local Goverance from Tradition to COVID-19
- Wednesday Week 2: Oregon State Parks: Terra Kemper (watch the recording)
- Terra and fellow park rangers with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department have collaborated with SSP in Chiloquin, OR on Adventure Wednesday activities for five years. We are grateful for partnerships with our local contacts, as they provide context for the service learning activities SSP volunteers engage in. Read Terra’s blog post from 2019.
- OSP on Facebook and Instagram