Progress Pushers

10/07/2026

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10/07/2026

Dear Federal Way Community Member,

The Federal Way Guardians are seeking community and youth input to help address belonging, rupture, and collective trauma while building solutions rooted in healing, truth-telling, solidarity, resilience, and joy.

Your voice matters. We invite you to take 5–10 minutes to complete the Federal Way Belonging Survey and share your experiences, ideas, and hopes for our community. Your input will help shape local programs and community-led solutions that create a stronger sense of belonging for everyone.

Please take the survey today and help us build a Federal Way where everyone can belong, heal, and thrive.

Take the survey:
FW Belonging Survey⁠

Dear community member, Thank you for your willingness to support the community of Federal Way in addressing issues of belonging, rupture, and collective trauma. We are seeking to co-create community and youth led solutions that will promote collective healing, truth-telling, solidarity, resilience,....

09/30/2026

Our founder and Executive Director's son, Tupac-Jamaal Purpose, chose to wear his Progress Pushers pendant today for picture day!

"It takes a healthy village to raise healthy children" and we, at PP, absolutely encourage and empower all of our babies to focus on progression, not perfection!

Our families are what creates our communities and we can't be great community leaders if we're not great leaders within our families first.

"It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men"

09/25/2026

The YWCA resource fair in white center was filled with so many great employment opportunities and we were grateful to have had a table there to further spread the word about who we are and how we can guide, educate and empower our youth and young adults!

09/24/2026

Q&A with AI:

Q:What solutions or concentrated efforts have played major parts in the reduction of crime/ violence in King County, WA?

A: 1. Community Violence Intervention & Public Health Models

King County formalized a public-health approach to gun violence by establishing the Regional Office of Gun Violence Prevention and coordinating community-based violence interruption:

Regional Peacekeepers Collective (RPKC): A coalition of community organizations and street outreach workers operating primarily in high-risk zones across South King County (Kent, Federal Way, Renton, Burien) and South Seattle. Peacekeepers focus on high-risk youth and young adults (ages 12–24) to mediate retaliatory disputes, de-escalate active feuds, and provide immediate post-incident crisis navigation.

Crime rates across King County vary significantly by municipality, but overall incident rates have experienced double-digit declines following pandemic-era peaks.

Countywide Trends & Key Statistics
Overall Crime Reductions:

Annual reports from the King County Sheriff’s Office showed an overall 22% decrease in total reported crime across its jurisdictions (unincorporated areas and partner contract cities).

Violent Crime:
Homicides: Down roughly 19% year-over-year, moderating from spikes recorded between 2021 and 2023.

Aggravated Assaults:
Dropped by approximately 22%.

Robberies:
Fell by almost 40%.
Per-Capita Baseline: The violent crime rate across the county generally sits around 4.0 to 4.5 offenses per 1,000 residents, tracking near or slightly higher than national averages primarily due to concentration in dense urban hubs.

Property Crime:
Property offenses historically make up the vast majority (around 70–80%) of all reported crime in King County.

Motor Vehicle Theft:
Dropped nearly 50% following legislative adjustments to state pursuit laws, targeted auto-theft task forces, and anti-theft software rollouts.

Burglaries & Thefts:
Commercial burglaries fell by 47%, and general larceny offenses decreased by approximately 21%.

Key takeaway: INVEST IN COMMUNITY DRIVEN EFFORTS BECAUSE THE ANSWERS ARE IN COMMUNITY!!!!

Huge Thank you to all of our Community Violence Intervention organizations in King County and the Regional office of gun violence prevention for being the solution in our communities! All of our collective work, concentrated efforts, pure dedication, genuine love, and intentional relationships is LITERALLY changing the trajectory of lives! What we're doing is working!!!!!

09/24/2026

We can't allow this day to pass without giving a huge scream of appreciation by acknowledging the Berkshire Hathaway real estate team!

They selected our organization for their "giveaway a day" efforts in volunteering and we're extremely overjoyed with their generosity, time and dedication in helping us organize and clean our space.

Thank you so much Sherry for putting it all together!

Sometimes you have to be a blessing to others in order to receive them.

09/23/2026

We had some brilliant, powerful and impactful community and systems leaders who blessed our space, as guest speakers, during our 40-hour personal and professional Credible Messenger training. Here are a few clips from those speakers:

-Chief Juvenile Judge Galván
-Director of Juvenile court services, Robert Gant
-Former King County Criminal Justice strategy and policy section manager/ consultant/ community leader, Marcus Stubblefield
-Legendary community leader/ prison reform advocate/ long time activst and retired City of Seattle employee, Queen Mother Mary Flowers
-Community leader/ Activist/ Co-Founder & Director of Vision & Values of the Black Rose Collective, David Heppard
-Community leader, mentor, prison reform advocate and activist, Eugene Youngblood
-Founder of Credible Messenger3 who helped to establish and expand the CM model, Clinton Lacey

09/23/2026

We want to send our gratitude and appreciation to two esteemed guests and trail blazers who came to our office to meet with our team today.

First, Ms Nicole Giamatti, LPO - who is the Founder and First Vice President of Equity Title of Washington LLC - shared her story of humble beginnings to becoming the first and only Black woman in the state of Washington who runs a title company. Her journey towards homeownership to dedicating her life to help others become home owners is nothing short of amazing, inspiring and empowering!

Secondly, Mr Reco Brembry... The man, the myth, the legend who created teen late nights within Washington state (and other states as well) is simply a wealth of wisdom, insights and resources! We look forward to whats coming down the pipeline under his tutelage.

We learned a lot from them both and look forward to continuing our collaboration, partnerships and expansion of services in order to continue being of service and a blessing to others who need it!

09/13/2026

This week our team had the honor and privilege of taking the world renowned “Alive and Free:The Prescription to End Violence and Change Lives” training with Dr. Joseph Marshall and his amazing amazing team (that are now a part of my village). Following that training, we were invited to join the radio show that they do weekly to share our experience…so If you’re free and are interested what that prescription could possibly be,

💢JOIN US TONIGHT night, 9/13 at 8pm!!💢 hop on YouTube and get some of this Rx‼️

Community conversation with host Dr. Joseph E. Marshall Jr. that is saving lives with the Alive & Free Prescription

09/06/2026