There is a huge lesson of positive change here. When we step away from a situation that we find unpleasant, we lose our voice. If we want to have a voice, not only do we want to stay in the situation, but we have to bring our allies with us and step in to do this together and make changes. Changing the system alone is too hard. Gathering allies and working together is hard work, but meaningful and can be fun as well, and better effect the desired change. We also learned that the existence of focus groups strengthens the larger group rather than weakening it. Giving people the opportunity to gather in groups of like interests create an engaged connected community, which can then be brought to the larger community.

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