Community Programs
Non-Profit Engagement
Let us bring the power of storytelling to your non-profit organization.
Free Prompt Writing Groups
We offer free prompt driven writing groups to foster community and help participants in your non-profit to unearth, hone and share their stories. There is an opportunity for participants to deeply listen to self and others, to make connections and friendships, to know they are not alone, and for the development of new voices–ones that might not have otherwise been heard. Whether your participants are senior citizens, people in recovery, former foster youth navigating a college campus, neurodiverse youth, caretakers, parents raising a neurodiverse child, women recovering from domestic violence–coming together to share stories is a powerful way to build community, heal and be seen.
Prompt Writing Leader Training
We partner and train staff to facilitate prompt writing workshops in your organization–empowering you to bring the powerful tool of storytelling and connection to your community.
Who we’ve served
Mothers Raising Neurodiverse Children
“Kathy’s community writing workshop provides a weekly beacon of hope. Each Sunday morning, 10 mothers of Ranch kids who face extraordinary challenges gather under Kathy’s wise guidance to explore their shared experience through writing. Enveloped in Kathy’s warmth, and safe in the structure of her carefully crafted prompts, moms are surprised by their own courage. They connect to each other and support one another in sharing things they’ve never shared with anyone, not even themselves.”
-Jackie Sloan, Director, The Children's Ranch
Under-Served Youth
“Film2Future (F2F) is a nonprofit, professional-level filmmaking program for under-served teenagers in Los Angeles and our mission is change the entertainment industry by building a direct pipeline for diverse youth into Hollywood. Saved by a Story's writing workshop provides a much needed creative outlet for Film2Future students: over weekly sessions, our students are able to write creatively and share their work in a safe, judgement free space. The workshops give our students the ability to dive deep and explore themselves and their writing — our student short films would not be as creative nor as powerful emotionally without the passion and expertise Kathy and Rory bring to each session.
-Rachel Miller, Founder, Film2Future
Women in Recovery
“Kathy Katims's Saved by a Story writing workshops were a way for women who were recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction to explore their voice, their choices and their lives–their past, what they valued, and engaged them to imagine a different kind of future.
She created a safe environment where women felt seen and heard and where they could dive into their creativity. Women shared that workshops created a feeling of sisterhood at our residential facility–bolstering, inspiring and connecting them as they were going through one of the most difficult journeys of their lives.”
- Jennifer Maduko, Development Director, ClareMatrix Women’s Treatment Program
Interested in bringing Saved by a Story workshops to your community organization?
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