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The Youth Leadership Group, a team of seventh- and eighth-graders from Mount Anthony Union Middle School, will hold a community dialogue at 6 p.m. Tuesday on the 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Students will speak about what inspired them to raise awareness and take action on substance use and suicide prevention to improve overall youth health and wellness in Bennington County.
The Youth Leadership Group is a partnership between ACT Bennington and MAUMS.
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Springfield Township High School students, Paris Thompson (third from left), Gabrielle Greene (third from right) and Candace Harrison (second from right), along with other members of the Cheltenham Branch NAACP Youth Leadership Committee attend a Breonna Taylor rally. (Courtesy of Liza Meiris)
The Youth Leadership Committee of the NAACP’s Cheltenham Branch went public last week with a video sharing anonymous stories of discrimination inside Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County. The group is inviting the public to a Zoom town hall at 7 p.m. May 19 to talk about ways to promote anti-racism in schools.
Students from the Cheltenham NAACP Branch had already been working for six months on racial justice issues inside local schools, but mostly at Springfield Township High School, which is more than 70% white, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Education. (The branch serves Cheltenham, Springfield, Jenkintown, Plymouth Meeting, and Whitemarsh.)
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BENNINGTON â In Bennington County, where 6 percent of students in grades 6-8 use marijuana frequently, Glauke Cooijmans is working to provide youth with education and coping skills.
âI really like the fine line between mental health treatment and prevention. Thatâs what Iâm able to do here at this school,â said Cooijmans, the prevention coordinator at Mount Anthony Union Middle School. âSubstance abuse is strongly related to mental health problems, itâs all intertwined. I think itâs a great opportunity to start addressing these issues at a young age which Iâm able to do here.â