{"id":1154,"date":"2017-10-27T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2017-10-23T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:03:31","slug":"nicole-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syracusewomanmag.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imprinting Hope<\/em><\/h1>\n

By Lorna Oppedisano | Photography by Alice G. Patterson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Nicole Watts was angry. Since her teenage years, she\u2019d felt a calling toward \u201cdiverse, urban community development,\u201d but couldn\u2019t pinpoint exactly what that calling would entail. And then, in the midst of what she referred to as a \u201cvery angry prayer,\u201d she had a vision of what would evolve into Hopeprint, a locally-based organization aimed at empowering resettled refugees to thrive.<\/p>\n

She saw herself on a street in an economically struggling neighborhood in the middle of the road, in the midst of some sort of parade.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the whole street was filled, as far as my eye could see, with people from every corner of the globe \u2014 like the whole world in one place,\u201d Nicole said. \u201cAnd I was towards the back of this really huge parade, the only person who looked like me. And my face was glowing with that look of, \u2018This is where life is. This is the thing I\u2019ve been looking for.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Other people who seemed to have been from a similar context as Nicole were watching from the sidelines, and she motioned for them to join.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet in here,\u201d she said to them. \u201cThis is where life is. This is exciting. Participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting the journey<\/h4>\n

Hopeprint\u2019s roots run deep, to when Nicole was 14 years old. Spending the majority of her childhood in Virginia and Colorado, she knew from a young age she was a natural-born leader.<\/p>\n

Then, at age 14, a service trip to the heart of Chicago exposed her for the first time to \u201cwhat the faces of poverty look like \u2014 the names and the people and the stories,\u201d she said. It ignited something in her, she explained \u2014 a holy anger and need for justice. Seeing children about her age with such a severe lack of access to opportunities she might take for granted left a mark.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s something that continues to always hit me upside the head,\u201d Nicole said, \u201cthat too many children who are raised in an impoverished context are not given the opportunity to witness or even dream beyond what they know.\u201d<\/p>\n

She decided she\u2019d go to college to earn a degree in urban studies, and do what she could to help the children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll just love kids until their lives are changed,\u201d Nicole thought.<\/p>\n

So, she followed that path, and it led her to a neighborhood in the heart of Chicago. It happened to be election season. While she was visiting with the children, some of their mothers asked her about who she\u2019d be voting for and why. The conversation was about so much more than politics, Nicole remembered. No one had really questioned her \u201cwhy\u201d before, she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized I had no idea what to do to really address the problem,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I think within a few months, I became very aware that just being a person who showed up and loved and hugged kids was not actually going to address the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finding family<\/h4>\n

Nicole switched majors, and graduated with a youth ministry degree instead. Finding a leadership role as a woman in that field can be difficult, Nicole explained; so, when she was offered a job in Manlius at Eastern Hills Bible Church, she welcomed the opportunity. The position started as a nine-month-long internship, but eventually Nicole was ordained, and served as a minister for 11 years.<\/p>\n

Nicole still felt a tug in her heart toward the fight for justice. But each time she did, it was accompanied with a feeling of, \u201cnot yet, not yet,\u201d she remembered.<\/p>\n

In early 2009, Nicole was traveling between Syracuse and Chicago, where she was taking classes. Having associated the sense of calling with Chicago, she was also looking for jobs in that area.<\/p>\n

As time passed, and plans to move fell through, Nicole got angry. Here she was, knowing she had a calling to fulfill, without any inkling of how to do it.<\/p>\n

Then she had the vision. But, despite its clarity \u2014 \u201cIt was as if someone had just put a painting right in front of my face,\u201d she remembered \u2014 the future was still murky. She wondered, where could she find the world all in one place \u2014 the United Nations? No, she thought, that\u2019s not it.<\/p>\n

Soon after the vision, Nicole began to learn more about refugee resettlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuh, well, this is like people from a bunch of different countries all living in one place,\u201d she thought.<\/p>\n

After looking into it, she realized Syracuse had a strong refugee resettlement culture. Through friends, she began to connect with the community. Meeting one refugee family after another, Nicole learned more about the systems of refugee resettlement, and local organizations that facilitated them, InterFaith Works and Catholic Charities. According to a woman familiar with the system at that point, by 2009, about 10,000 refugees had been resettled in Syracuse, Nicole remembered. With the exception of this year, between 700 and 1,300 refugees are resettled in the Syracuse area each year. It\u2019s \u201ca pretty significant influx,\u201d Nicole said, adding many of them settle on the Northside.<\/p>\n

As they began to welcome her into their homes, Nicole\u2019s connections with the refugee community grew.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I was drinking tea, and eating way too much food,\u201d she said with a laugh, \u201cand falling absolutely in love with these friends from all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicole\u2019s family lives in Atlanta, so her new friends soon became a surrogate family. And while she got to know them, she noticed she was making a difference in their lives, too. It wasn\u2019t any grandiose gestures or huge expenditures on her part, she explained. It was just simple things, like helping sort mail or figuring out where to buy school supplies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just being a friend and being present in their lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Finding her hopeprint<\/h4>\n

About a year later, Nicole found herself spending a lot of time with her new family, and then making the commute back to Manlius each night. She wanted to have her friends over to her home, but transportation from across the city was complicated.<\/p>\n

She decided to move to the Northside, but not until she could find at least one person to move with her. To relocate alone would set her up for burnout, she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the biggest things that happens in these communities is well-intending people move in and they pour their lives out. They burn out. And then, they ultimately end up hurting the people who they were there to love and help,\u201d Nicole said, \u201cbecause they disappear out of their lives \u2014 because they have the option to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, she found one person willing to make the leap with her and found a house. A few more people moved in with them, and they all lived like a family, with their extended family of refugee families around them.<\/p>\n

For the next year and a half, Nicole and her new family lived a \u201ccrazy, full life,\u201d she remembered with a smile. Dozens of\u00a0people joined them for dinner each night. They held impromptu college prep classes. They saw a need for after-school care and created a program. They realized someone needed to learn English, so a bedroom transformed into a classroom. Every space in the house was utilized.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur home was just this beating heart in the neighborhood,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

When Nicole and her family moved into the house on the Northside, they began using the name Hopeprint. The word comes from the belief that \u201cevery single individual has a unique ability to imprint the world with hope and with who they are and their uniqueness,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all better when people are able to live into their fullest sense of their own uniqueness,\u201d Nicole said. \u201cSo, Hopeprint is indicative of this idea that justice is a fingerprint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether someone is American-born or a refugee, they have a hopeprint, Nicole explained, adding that quite often, it gets covered up with rubble. For some, it\u2019s the rubble of war and trauma, she said; for others, it\u2019s that of wealth and indifference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many cases, we need to dust it off,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The mission<\/h4>\n

As Hopeprint evolved, Nicole and her neighborhood family realized they would need more space, and eventually expanded into two other houses on the same street in the Northside.<\/p>\n

The organization\u2019s programming evolved as the needs of the refugee community changed. At Hopeprint\u2019s founding, it was hard to find an English as a second language class, so volunteers provided them. Now, as more community resources offer the classes, Hopeprint can point refugees in that direction, and focus its own programming elsewhere.<\/p>\n

One of Hopeprint\u2019s key programs, Her Village, was developed to meet a need for a community support system among mothers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost are used to living in a village or highly relational context, where there were people around all the time,\u201d Nicole said. \u201cParenting is different. Marriage is different. Everything\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the unfamiliarity can spring loneliness and depression, she explained. So, Her Village is a means to foster relationships between mothers, hopefully building a network of friends in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Along with ever-evolving programming, the team at Hopeprint aims to impact policies and structures affecting the refugee community.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not live under a rock,\u201d Nicole said. \u201cWe realize that power lies in certain places and that it lies among some of us who are part of this family, and that it is part of our task that we must leverage that power towards equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

To do this means to show up in conversations, she explained. Most of the discussions that ultimately impact the community happen around big conference tables, she said. The goal, Nicole explained, is to reserve a seat and culturally equip members of the resettled refugee population to take those seats as the expert leaders they can be for their own families and communities.<\/p>\n

These conversations center around community collaboration. Hopeprint is working with a number of community organizations \u2014 including InterFaith Works, Catholic Charities, Northside Learning Center, RISE, SCSD Refugee Assistance Program, CNY Fair Housing, CenterState CEO Economic Inclusion, the Gifford Foundation, CNY Community Foundation, Onondaga County and the city of Syracuse \u2014 on the Refugee Alliance. The alliance has a mission to \u201cgather key influencers towards collective impact in our city\u2019s resettled refugee communities, and neighborhoods where they live,\u201d according to Hopeprint\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

The Hopeprint team also aims to be present at neighborhood meetings. While Hopeprint\u2019s mission focuses on the refugee community, Nicole realizes they\u2019re not the only members of the Northside affected by issues like racial inequality and economic opportunity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo create equitable situations for New Americans at the loss of our American-born, most especially those who have been silenced or unheard for years, is to our detriment,\u201d she explained. \u201cAll those voices have to be brought up together.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January 2016, Nicole became Hopeprint\u2019s first \u2014 and, so far, only \u2014 full-time staff member, with the help of funding from\u00a0a friend\u2019s family foundation. It\u2019s given Nicole the opportunity to focus leadership energy on policy conversations and meetings, as well as a fresh perspective to strategically manage volunteer resources, she explained.<\/p>\n

Now, Hopeprint employs five part-time staff members, and is helped by a team of more than 100 volunteers, ranging from high school students to college interns to professionals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come from everywhere, but one of the biggest ways we get people are other team members,\u201d Nicole said. \u201cOur volunteers are part of the family. They catch it. And so, they start talking about it, and then their friends want to participate, and then they bring them down. So, our highest way that we get people is just word of mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A hope-filled future<\/h4>\n

Hopeprint has evolved organically since its inception in 2010, and it\u2019s only the beginning. Along with the local conversations, Nicole stays tuned in with national discussions, as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we show up in those conferences and in those spaces and interact with other communities, we repeatedly hear, \u2018I wish our city had something like that,\u2019 about Hopeprint,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, after several years of hearing that, I went, \u2018Well, there\u2019s no reason why your city can\u2019t have Hopeprint.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In some places, that means connecting with organizations that have similar missions. Or, in other cases, it could mean coming alongside resettled refugees in those other communities, like Nicole did in Syracuse. She\u2019d like to eventually see a network of Hopeprint-like organizations throughout the country. The first of those sister Hopeprint programs is slated for Kansas City later this year.<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal isn\u2019t to establish a million Hopeprints, Nicole said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point is that we want every community to have this for the families that are moving in. In order to do that, we\u2019ve had to figure out what our DNA is,\u201d she said, explaining that at its core, Hopeprint doesn\u2019t necessarily equate to a residential house on Syracuse\u2019s Northside. \u201cWhat it means is spaces of hospitality with people who have the posture of mutual mentorship with an orientation and intentionality around community collaboration \u2014 all towards empowering these new members of our community to thrive.” SWM <\/em><\/p>\n

For more information on Hopeprint, visit hopeprint.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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