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#CommunityHERoes Spotlight ✨ Meet Megan Fouty of Tin Can, sharing how she leads with authenticity, mentorship, and connection. Author of The Art of Networking, she’s helping underrepresented leaders build strong networks: tinyurl.com/yc5tef98 #WomensHistoryMonth

💛 Welcome Liz Marcus, REST’s new Director of Philanthropy! With 13+ years in fundraising leadership, she brings deep experience growing donor relationships and revenue. Learn more here: iwantrest.org/about/our-team

#CommunityHERoes Spotlight ✨ Meet Dr. Jenna Butler @Microsoft on leading with joy, boundaries, and authenticity while raising a family. Read her reflections on “No is a complete sentence” and her mother’s legacy: tinyurl.com/5ep5bfcr #WomensHistoryMonth

#CommunityHERoes Spotlight ✨ Meet Doris O’Neal, Director of GBVSS @YWCAworks, leading a team of 14 advocates with courage and adaptability. Read her reflections on mentorship, Audre Lorde, and leadership under pressure. Read: tinyurl.com/4x5p8z8e #WomensHistoryMonth

March is full of opportunities to show up. Whether you want to volunteer, learn, or gather online, we’d love to have you with REST this month: iwantrest.org/events

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our volunteer day earlier this month! Shout out to four @seattleu students via Prof. Huang (Legal Studies). We cut magazines for collages and prepped glasses for an Art Spa day to support survivors. Join next time: volunteer@iwantrest.org 🎨💛

For the 3rd year, we’re spotlighting women who move our community forward with #CommunityHERoes for #WomensHistoryMonth! ✨ Nominate a teammate, mentor, leader, advocate, or trailblazer. Self noms welcome. Submissions open through March 16: tinyurl.com/2uk8umda

However you feel about #ValentinesDay, you can use it to support survivors. Feb 14: Order @MODPizza (14210 SE Petrovitsky Rd., Renton) and 20% supports REST. Use code MODGIVES20 online or in the MOD app, or mention REST in store. #MODPizza

Get out in South Seattle this #BlackHistoryMonth and support Black-owned businesses. We shared local favorites and easy day-out routes to eat, shop, and explore with purpose. Read the blog: iwantrest.org/blog #BHM2026 #BuyBlack #SupportBlackBusiness

Honored to join fellow sponsors for last week’s Summit on Crime Survivors Special Topics on commercial sexual exploitation at Seattle City Hall, centering survivor leadership: tinyurl.com/2rf3v8fj #Survivors #CityHall #WWConverge #TheBigOShow @CityofSeattle

Looking for a meaningful way to get involved this month? REST has several opportunities coming up in February. Join us however you can: iwantrest.org/events

Celebrating 15 years as a 501(c)(3)! 🎉 We’re honoring survivors, staff, and the community behind this work, and you’ll start seeing our 15-year logo across materials this year. Read more: tinyurl.com/ypbdryer

Join us for a free webinar for #HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth: Tue, Jan 27, 12:00–12:30 p.m. 💻 Learn practical ways to partner with survivors & help end trafficking. With Josh Cuellar and The Butlers (2025 Stronger Together Award recipients). Register: tinyurl.com/ybtk9pta

Sip with purpose. 🫖🍵☕️💛 REST’s Signature Tea Collection is live on Adagio! Five percent supports survivors. To celebrate, here is a $5 gift certificate: 6902800592. (expires in 24 hours). More blends coming soon, check back often: tinyurl.com/2mer79bm

Join us for a free online webinar for #HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth on Tue, Jan 20, 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. 💻 As REST marks 15 years alongside survivors, Yasminda Dorrough and Josh Cuellar will reflect on our journey and what’s ahead in 2026. Register: tinyurl.com/yb7hu6dp

Because of you, our end of year campaign raised $100,000 for survivors at REST. 💛 Your support becomes answered calls, advocacy, essentials, and steady care on the path to freedom, safety, and healing. Thank you!

REST is #hiring an Emergency Services Swing Shift Supervisor! Lead evening/weekend ERC + 24/7 hotline crisis support. 📍 South Seattle | 🕒 Tue–Fri 3–11 + Sat 12–8 | 💰 $30–$34/hr Apply: tinyurl.com/z5efhetk

Free online webinar tomorrow, Tue Jan 13, 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. 💻 Josh Cuellar from REST busts trafficking myths plus Q and A. Register for the recording if you can't attend: tinyurl.com/yszm65pe #HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth #HTPM #EndTrafficking

💙 Before today ends, join #WearBlueDay for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It's a simple way to show support for survivors & help bring visibility to human trafficking. Wear blue, share a pic & take 2 min. to learn the signs so we can all help build a safer community.

🎉 New year, new chance to make a difference & get involved! January is #NationalHumanTraffickingPreventionMonth, and we invite you to choose one way to stand with survivors and help expand pathways to freedom, safety, and hope.: iwantrest.org/events