NYOP paving paths to the future providing safe haven while empowering young people
Category: Youth
At 600 Pitt St. in Wilkinsburg, declining membership within the once thriving St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church was the catalyst for opening the doors a little wider as the parishioners reached out to the drastically changing community. The Episcopal church, in the midst of an African-American neighborhood, made a decision to “walk alongside their Wilkinsburg neighbors in friendship,” to attain “reconciliation across barriers of race and life experience, and to provide care in places of great need.”
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| AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM—Anthony Jackson, in charge of the after-school program, plays and sings with the kids.
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Project Prom Shop open for seniors
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
The Allegheny County Department of Human Services continues the tradition of offering eligible high school students prom attire at no cost. Since 2003, DHS has provided formal wear to more than 1,100 students through Project Prom. This year, the giveaway will take place on March 23, 24, and 25 from 3-6 p.m. at the Project Prom Shop on the third floor of Century III Mall.
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Pittsburgh schools expanding tech offerings
Category: Youth Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
With the empty hulk of a closed Connolly Technical School looming over the city, education advocates have long argued that the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ focus on preparing students for college left no career path training for non-college bound students.
The district responded with several career-oriented programs, but they were specific to certain schools and unavailable on a district-wide basis. That will change if a new model for delivering Career and Technical Training, released last week, is adopted. All the academic programs in these schools will remain the same.
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History In The Making’ 10 young Black leaders honored
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Citiparks honored 10 local young African-American leaders in a Black History Month tribute displayed in the lobby of the City-County Building, Downtown.“History in the Making: Honoring Our Young African American Leaders of Today” ran throughout the month of February
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| HONOREES—Front, from left: Major Lisa Bellamy, Constance F. Horton, La’Tasha D. Mayes, Greer Reed-Jones and Jamilla Rice. Back, from left: Charles Chapman, Paul A. Ellis, Barrett Woods, Monte Robinson and Rob Wilson.
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Acting ‘ghetto’ in college
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
by Keona Prude
(Black College Wire)—While in college, you are bound to meet people from different backgrounds and cultural settings. One image becoming more apparent to me is the “hood” or “ghetto” representation.
On a daily basis, I hear someone saying “I’m from the streets,” or “I’m from the hood.” Being from the hood is not a problem. However, when you cannot differentiate between what’s appropriate behavior in a college setting because you are stuck in your hood mentality, that’s when it becomes an issue.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:20
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