Room One

04/11/2025

🚨Important news🚨Peer Support group is taking a little break and will not be meeting on April 14. Stay tuned for further updates!

03/27/2025

Whether end of life comes naturally, as a result of an accident, or the final chapter of a disease, planning ahead can make things easier. Join the Methow Valley Advance Care Planning Group and Worry-Free Wednesdays for a workshop that will give you guidance on where to start planning and how to have conversations with those close to you about what quality of life means to you. All participants will leave with an End-of-Life planning checklist & essential documents!

02/04/2025

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Writing Through the Mess: Becoming Community Through Play Feb. 21 -23

For a whole weekend, poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer invites us to bring our playful selves, our wounded selves, our silly and serious and curious selves into a welcoming, supportive, generous environment where we can explore and create together. No previous experience necessary. You don’t even have to like poems to participate.

Your Backyard: Belonging to the Land - (Methow at Home sponsored event)
A morning workshop.

Whether you’ve lived in the Methow Valley for two months or eighty years, this place has changed you and made you who you are. How does it influence the way you see the world? What thrills you about it? What keeps you here? What makes you want to leave? In this two-hour poetry playshop, we’ll read and write poems that help us explore our relationship to this place we call home.

Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
Location: At the Winthrop Library
Free event, but registration required
Limited to 30 people (60+ years or older, please)

Multiple events throughout the weekend. Please visit Methow Arts to learn more and register. https://www.methowarts.org/our-events/writing-through-the-mess-becoming-community-through-play

01/24/2025

As a follow-up to to last week's (really great!) Methow Valley News article about opioid overdoses, and in response to the ongoing challenges of substance use in the Methow Valley, we want to take a minute to answer some questions we’ve fielded recently:

In response to the ongoing challenges of opioid overdoses and substance use in the Methow Valley, we want to take a minute to answer some questions we’ve fielded recently:

12/04/2024

It's open enrollment time! 🎉🎉 If you haven't already, head over to wahealthplanfinder.org before December 15th to compare and enroll in health and/or dental insurance for 2025. Insurance is available for ALL people living in Washington State, regardless of gender identity, immigration status, income, etc. If you need help navigating the website, call us at (509) 997-2050 to set up an appointment with one of our advocates.

12/03/2024

Mental Health Monday is back! 🌱

Did you know plants and people have more in common than you think? Just like plants need water, sunlight, and care to thrive, our relationships need nurturing too!

Take a moment today to check in with a friend or family member—sometimes a simple "hello" can make all the difference.

Understanding the power of social connection can transform your health and well-being. Dive into the vital components of relationships—structure, function, and quality—and see how they shape your life.

11/27/2024

Thanks to the Channing Family Farm, we have garlic for days! And as a reminder, we’ll be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving 🦃 have a great rest of your week!

11/20/2024

Snow Day! If you need a hot drink or a place to stay warm, come on in ❄️❄️❄️We’ll be open until 4 and always love seeing our neighbors!

10/27/2024

Our social media feeds aren’t going to continue to be focused solely on voting (and registering to vote, reminders that your vote matters, etc) for very much longer. The reality is, though, that our community is in need of radical system changes, and those changes start with our voices at the ballot box. Everything that Room One is working towards—a rural community where all can thrive, where there is no threat of violence, where we actively look out for our neighbors, where people have access to the help they need without fear of judgement—depends on our collective action. So, stick with us for the next 9 days and we’ll return to our semi-regularly scheduled programming 😉

10/26/2024

If you’ve been to the the last couple of years, you’ve likely seen our rockstar Food Ambassador. From working in the community garden and sharing her mad growing skills to slinging SNAP on Saturdays and working on creative ways to help end food insecurity in our community, Olivia has been a vital part of our Food Access team. As she wraps up her time with us, we want to take a moment to celebrate Olivia’s incredible contributions. Her dedication to fostering community engagement, educating others about sustainable farming, and advocating for food access has made a lasting impact. Whether she was tending to the community garden or connecting families with vital resources, Olivia’s passion and expertise have truly shone through. We’re grateful for her hard work and the positive change she’s brought to our community. Thank you, Olivia, for everything! We invite everyone to stop by the Room One booth at this last market to say goodbye and celebrate Olivia’s amazing journey with us!

10/25/2024

Did you know we send out a regular e-newsletter? You can also read individual stories as blog posts on our website! This month, we focused on the idea of HOME and what it looks like for us here in the Methow. To be added to our email list, send us a DM!

10/21/2024

2 quick facts!

1. Our last post said we can’t tell you how to vote. And on a candidate level, that’s true. As a 501(c)3, though, we CAN encourage you one way or another about Initiatives.

2. Last year, 140 kids in Okanogan County (including some at our own Little Star schools) received free childcare in part due to funding received through the capital gains tax. This year, that funding is at risk and we can’t just sit by and let it happen: vote NO on I-2109 to ensure that working families continue to have increased access to childcare that meets their needs.