Matchstick Consulting | Annual Sources Showcase in Spring of 2025!
Some previous years of planning our annual Showcase has included Peer Leaders joining in on the planning and organizing of our annual event. Peer Leader’s voices are always so important, especially when it comes to an event all about highlighting the amazing work that all of you participate in doing! It is important to us that you are included in this work and awarding others for their contributions and efforts to Sources of Strength at their schools. We are introducing a Showcase Planning Committee and inviting Peer Leaders from all across Oregon to join for this year's Annual Sources Showcase.
This annual Sources Showcase highlights Peer Leaders, Adult Advisors, Sources Teams, and Elementary Coaches, specifically in Oregon. Please read this and share this invitation if you’d like to with other Peer Leaders who may be interest! If you are interested in joining our small group of Oregon Peer Leaders who help plan out our 2025 Annual Sources Showcase, please have them fill out this form: link to interest form. We would love to collaborate with you and a small team of Peer Leaders to help create our Showcase theme, prizes, identify our talents/guest speakers, and more. You need to be a Peer Leader or former Peer Leader in Oregon and/or have a Sources of Strength team at your school.
This is such a great opportunity to collaborate with the Statewide Team for Sources of Strength, Matchstick Consulting, and gain experience organizing a statewide event, kind of like a campaign! This work is compensated/includes a stipend of $200. If you have additional follow up questions, please reach out to Julian Foulks, julian@matchstickpdx.com, or Ashley George, ashley@matchstickpdx.com. Thank you so much!
Click the links below for additional details such as requirements, meeting dates/times, stipend (payment), and contacts.
The Sources Showcase celebrates Oregon students and adults working to create belonging and connection in their schools and communities, either through Sources of Strength programming or other youth-led suicide prevention efforts. They used their words, art, music, influence, activities and collective power to be agents of change, connectors to help and spread messages of hope, help and strength across Oregon. They have demonstrated the power that tapping into strengths can have on individuals and entire communities.
Nominees are chosen based on submissions that showed how they are:
Agents of change: how they use their voice, art, words, music, and/or time to advance belonging, connection, and equity in their school or community.
Connectors to help: how they elevate positive opportunities for their peers, normalized help-seeking, and work to break down stigma and codes of silence so often connected to seeking mental health support.
Rooted in hope, help and strength: how they embody strengths-based and inclusive practices.
