“We very specifically look at how kids are doing and to help us prioritize, because we do need to prioritize who we reach out to,” says Charlotte Kinzley, manager of Homeless and Highly Mobile Student Services forMinneapolis Public Schools. “Experiencing homelessness is always hard, but it...
During a demo at Akido’s Culver City office, I saw how Scope AI is supposed to work. In a conference room where the Scope interface was projected onto a screen, I was given the role of June, a 56-year-old who had been experiencing homelessness for four years. She’d be...
Honestly, I think my own kids would have fared better had someone else been their mom. I think parenting/motherhood is oversold, over-glamorized and simply not the best choice for everyone. I don’t even know if I made a choice about becoming a parent. I do know I had a belief I’...
So, what you’re doing, in turn, is offering to help… and creating work for the person you’re trying to help. They’re already busy, so the email often gets ignored. And that leads me to thing not to do #2: If you’re contacting someone you don’t know, NEVER extend a gene...
Whenever we hear about “the homeless”, most of us think of the Developing world. But the31is that homelessness is everywhere. For example, how many of us would expect to see people living on the streets of a32country like Germany?
"A lot of my clients are in the Florida area and were affected by the hurricane, so they are giving to help others around the area," McKinnon says. "They use this as their annual church giving, or sometimes they will break it up and send some to a homeless shelter and some to the...
How to Help a Teenager Make Good Decisions Habitually poor decision making is actually common in teenagers. Naturally, such a habit makes parent-teen cooperation difficult, especially when a parent wants his teen to do what a " responsible adolescent" would do. A poor decision-making teenager ca...
Joining a club or a group, talking to those who like the same things as you do is much e___(74). Or join someone in some activity. Many people are n___ (75) when talking to new people. After all, meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bi...
I've always dreamed of being an excellent student. And over the years, I've been on a journey to achieve that goal. Every morning, without fail, I wake up early. The world is still quiet, and it's just me and my English words. I grab my notebook and start reciting those words....
“It’s been so inspiring to see what the Foster America team has been able to achieve,” says Dan. For example, a fellow is helping Washington state design innovative solutions to reduce the pipeline of young adults who go from foster care to homelessness. She’s ...