New Data Shows Youth are Making Healthier Choices
If you’ve wondered if prevention programs can actually make a difference here is some encouraging news: new data show that more youth today have healthier behaviors than youth of 25 years ago. Data from the Youth Behavior Risk Surveillance Survey,…
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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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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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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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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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