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"For so long I wondered, searching far and wide for a place to call my own where I could reside.
A place to lay my heart without fear or shame where I could be myself and not feel like I'm to blame," says Rodenae Rodenae, a teen attending a summer camp in Dayton, Ohio.
Robert Owens, the director of the Signature Levitt Music and Creative Arts Camp, says the camp gives teens "a different outlet, a different support to express that creativity or express frustration," per WKEF.
"We know that if they don't have that outlet, it can be bottled up, it can turn into violence," he adds.
Owens and his wife, Sierra Leone, have been running the camp for four years, offering music, dance, poetry, and more for teens in the Dayton area.
"We really started this camp out of a need during the pandemic for mental health and social and emotional wellbeing and to support kids going through trauma," Owens says.
"So with that said, this is also an opportunity for kids that feel displaced like maybe they don't feel that they're not enough or they don't know where they belong," he adds.
The camp's opening act on Saturday, for example
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The Good SENS (Social Enterprise Network for Schools) National Dragons' Den 2024 competition was held last month.The programme is a financial literacy initiative by the Financial Industry Collective...more
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Chase County College Access has provided scholarship funding to Chase County High School students for the past eight years.The scholarship fund pays up to 100 percent of tuition, essentially leveling...more
Foundation: Community Foundation of Chippewa County
More than 145,000 raised for youth education and agriculture in Chippewa County.Wisconsin Farm Technology Days is a yearly event that is hosted in a different county each year.The event brought in...more
The 2024 Annual Medical Education Innovations and Scholarship Conference celebrated NYU Grossman School of Medicine's accomplishments and medical education innovations during the year.The event...more
Foundation: Orange County Community Foundation
Mike Mussallem has retired as CEO and chair of Edwards Lifesciences.He plans to support medtech innovation in these four areas: education, translation and policy.His charitable family foundation...more
There are multiple local resources children, teens and families can turn to after something scary happens.The Amelia Center specializes providing services for children and teens who experienced a...more
Cedar Rapids' first charter school, Empowering Excellence, will expand this fall to serve 14- to 21-year-olds.The school was created by local educator Sarah Swayze.In the fall of 2022, the Cedar...more
Bronxville Junior Earns National Creative Writing Competition Award.Her short story follows a doctor's child who earns a perfect score on a national exam and is inaugurated into the imperial...more
In the U.S., only about 20% of Jewish school-age children attend day schools.90% of those students attend Orthodox schools, according to a 2018-2019 census.Jewish day schools are often prohibitively...more
Foundation: Ripley County Community Foundation
Ripley Youth Outreach (RYO) focused on promoting education in all aspects of philanthropy in local youth.The Ripley County Endowment for the Arts supported local art organizations creating...more
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Hexham Social Enterprise Launches Workshop to Provide Training for the Unemployed
A Gilesgate-based shop and community facility, Hexham’s Core Music, launches a separate workshop where up to six people will be trained how to repair guitars and make ukuleles. The European Social Fund grant supported the project and has secured funds through the County Durham Communication Foundation to equip the workshop in Burn Lane.
