The "Choking Game" Is On the Rise and Results in Deadly Consequences; Columbia Borough School District Takes a Proactive Approach in Responding to This Issue
The “Choking Game,” has become a rising issue effecting youth mainly from ages 9-16. The Choking “Game,” however, is not a game at all, in fact it’s a way that kids can seriously injure themselves or die in an attempt…
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Rising to the Challenge: Columbia, PA Community Takes Healthy Risks to Battle Decline
More than 25% of the kids living in Columbia, PA live below the poverty line. Like many other towns in the Northeast, this once-thriving area has struggled through decades of an economic decline that’s pushed out industry, small business, and…
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How to Have a Happy and Healthy Holiday Season and New Year
Let’s face it, we do not always show our healthiest selves over the holidays or make the healthiest decisions. Here are some ways to take healthy risks and make healthy decisions to end your holiday season on a positive, happy,…
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Compass Mark Helps Students Embrace Change and Empowers Them to "Make History"
The Columbia Borough School District decided to take a proactive approach to possible challenges that may come out of the consolidation of Park and Taylor Elementary Schools in the Columbia Borough School District. In November, Bevan Allen, Compass Mark’s Lead…
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Avoid Unhealthy Risks by Trying These Holiday Stress Relief Tips
Hosting your in-laws for a long weekend…trudging through the mall crowd…hunting endlessly for that “perfect” gift. The holiday hustle can wear anyone down. While stress is a normal part of life, especially during the season of joy and cheer, some…
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Volunteering Does the Body Good- Why You Should Share Time & Talent [Research]
Say “risk-taking” and most of us probably think of parachuting from planes or climbing mountains. You might even think of negative risky behaviors, like abusing alcohol or other drugs. But did you know that volunteering is a risk, too? In…
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Volunteering Does the Body Good- Why You Should Share Time & Talent [Research]
Say “risk-taking” and most of us probably think of parachuting from planes or climbing mountains. You might even think of negative risky behaviors, like abusing alcohol or other drugs. But did you know that volunteering is a risk, too? In…
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Compass Mark's own Chief Logistics officer, Donna Becker, Shares Her Healthy Risk For the Year
Donna’s healthy risk in her own words: “This year is beginning my Master of Divinity degree at Lancaster Theological Seminary. This is the start of a new career for me, hopefully as a chaplain in a retirement community.
Peer Factor: Teen Risk-Taking May Be Sparked by Peer Influence [Research]
If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Whether you heard that phrase as a kid or you find yourself saying it to your own children, the concept is all too familiar to most of us.…
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The Power of a Kids Kamp Campfire
The term Risk is often associated with being a bad thing, but there is another side to risk, a healthy side. Taking a healthy risk is really a way that individuals empower themselves and move forward in life. In the…
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