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Recent Publications

Thriving Initiative Art Work Done By Luca Disbrow. Hands joining in colors of multiple shades of purple

Thriving Not Surviving; The Thriving Initiative Shows Us What Healing Could Look Like

July 28th, 2021

Article by Taylor Clark in the Daily Nexus
Image by Luca Disbrow / Daily Nexus

Link:
https://dailynexus.com/2021-07-28/thriving-not-surviving-the-thriving-initiative-shows-us-what-healing-could-look-like/

Mural about recovery for survivors, depicting a woman driving on a colorful highway road along the ocean as the sun sets, with her eyes looking in the rearview mirror.

Thriving Initiative Creates Mural About Recovery for Survivors of Interpersonal Violence at I.V. Community Center

February 6, 2023

Article by Alex Levin in the Daily Nexus

Link:

https://dailynexus.com/2023-02-06/thriving-initiative-creates-mural-about-recovery-for-survivors-of-interpersonal-violence-at-i-v-community-center/

Decorative Lighting

Student-Run Non-profit Sheds Light on an Invisible Community

June 8th, 2021

Article by Danielle Yoon in the Santa Barbara Independent

Link: https://www.independent.com/2021/06/08/student-run-non-profit-sheds-light-on-an-invisible-community/

Thriving Initiative Artwork, Color Mural of Holding Hands

Power the Fight to Justice: Advocacy Feature - The Thriving Initiative

June 8th, 2021

by SASA in Btwn the Sheets No.3, pg. 18-23

Link:

https://www.sasa-ca.org/index.php/magazine/

Supporting A Community of Recovery

March 30th, 2021

Podcast by Brian Walker of Dreams Not Memes the Podcast

Link: https://anchor.fm/dreamsnotmemes/episodes/Episode-274-Supporting-A-Community-of-Recovery-A-Conversation-with-Lauren-of-Thriving-Initiative-etreig

UC Speaks Up

Winter, 2020

UC Speaks Up, Affiliate Groups

Link:

http://ucspeaksup.org/the-thriving-initiative/

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