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Remembrance Day
November 11 @ 11:00AM each year Canada Pauses to remember those veterans who lost their lives defending our country, those still living and those currently serving in our armed forces abroad. Prouder to be a Canadian on this day! Send our troops a message!
The Importance of Family Dinners
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, or so they say. Family dinners are are the most important meal for family interaction, reviewing the day, family counselling and taking a pause during the day together.
The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University proves it!
CASA Article: The Importance of Family Dinners V
School turns away bullied teen girl
Naudia’s choice: School 3 buses away — or school where girls wait to make her life hell.
By MICHELE MANDEL The Toronto Sun
Naudia Braun should be enjoying her first days of high school, meeting new friends, taking in new classes.
Instead, during this “Safe and Caring Schools” start to the academic year, the 14-year-old remains at home, with nowhere to turn because a bureaucratic 30 metres are all that separate her from a safe education.
Naudia was supposed to start Grade 9 at East York Collegiate, but her mother Cheryl refuses to send her there — and she agrees.
MEAN GIRLS
She underwent two years of absolute hell in her middle school at the hands of a pack of mean girls who were a year older — and now they’re lying in wait for her at East York.
So last March, her mother asked the Toronto District School Board to allow her daughter to attend SATEC @ W. A. Porter Collegiate this fall, just 1.3 km away from her home. They turned her down, even though she had been told there were spots open for transfers, because Naudia lives just outside the district. The Brauns’ home is on the west side of Victoria Park — if they lived just 30 metres across the road, she would have been able to go.
Complete Article Here: Mean Girls
Youth Ministry:Fair Trade
Do you believe that people in developing nations are no different than we are in that they desire dignity, the opportunity to work, provide for their families, and invest in their communities. They are different in that they face significant challenges socially, economically, geographically, and politically that make it impossible for them to break the cycle of poverty without strategic and respectful support and intervention.
As a youth ministry leader, you should be involved personally in fair trade but also infecting change within the youth ministry that God has blessed you to lead.
ht to ZoeAlliance
PSA Texting while Driving, Gwent, U.K., August 2009, Peter Watkins-Hughes, Newport School, Wales
With teenagers texting now more than ever to communicate with friends, the dangers of driving while texting is a common occurance and not limited to just teenagers. This PSA from the UK pulls no punches and is gruesome in its portrayal
What Do YOU Think About Using Social Media for Social Good? [Survey]
Adam Hirsh from Mashable is currently running a social media charitable campaign, The Summer of Social Good, equally benefiting LiveSTRONG, The Humane Society, WWF, and Oxfam America. We’ve raised $25,000+ ahead of the campaign’s official conference next week.
They’ve learned a lot from this campaign so far and received a great deal of helpful feedback, and now They’d like to turn their experience into a case study that will benefit organizations interested in using social media. But to do so, they need your help!
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