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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.
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The Wean Foundation awarded three grants.The money will be used for education-related projects.One of the grants will support the creation of a sci-fi museum in Trumbull County, Ohio.The other two...more
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DE Turf Sports Complex gets $4.15M state grant for domed field.Domed facility will give area youth and high-school programs a place to practice and compete year-round.The domed facility also will...more
Parents and teachers urge SFUSD board not to colocate Gateway Middle School on Creative Arts campus.San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education January 8,...more
Creative Arts Charter asks SFUSD to place $14 million Prop 51 application on next agenda.San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education January 23, 2018.AI-Generated Content: All content...more
State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced Georgia would continue its expansion of fine arts instruction across the state.The plan also seeks to add advanced fine arts courses to the HOPE...more
Teachers and students across Spring Lake Public Schools will be able to partake in unique learning opportunities thanks to grant dollars distributed by a group of district parents and community...more
The Jakob Bowerman Memorial Scholarship Fund will award annual scholarships to high school students from Marinette and Menominee counties who have a diagnosed special need.Priority given to students...more
Foundation: Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Jessica Muroff is the President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County.The foundation supports libraries, literacy initiatives and scholarships for students.The Foundation also helps...more
Music programs have come under scrutiny for years, with school boards and other elected officials looking at these costs as an unnecessary part of the school curriculum.A study from the Brain and...more
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