September is National Recovery Month, and a program in Ohio is showing success in healing families who have struggled with addiction. Ohio START (Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma) focuses on families experiencing child maltreatment and substance use disorders. Children Services caseworkers, behavioral health providers, and Family Peer Mentors work in tandem to get them the support they need. .
In early August, fall registration opens at several South Dakota locations offering a national program geared for grade-school-age girls. It combines social and emotional skill building with physical activity. Girls on the Run is a nonprofit, which built the youth development curriculum. .
The summer season and violent crime can fuel narratives by the public and the media about safety in urban settings. But in Minnesota s largest city, an emerging effort aims to show that some youth want to firmly establish peace through communication. Like many other places, Minneapolis has seen increases in violent crime in the past couple of years. .
Not everyone stayed to help. When a crisis happens in America, we run to the rescue. Everybody runs to the rescue, said Will Wallace. But then I had to say to myself, what s the aftermath? Who s going to keep it going?
Wallace, director of youth programs at Emerge Community Development in north Minneapolis, stood in a room crowded with everything his neighbors might need to make it through the week. Cans of soup, bags of onions, stacks of cleaning products and diapers, warm clothes, school supplies.
These were the sort of donations that came flooding in over the summer, piling high at drop-off sites between the shattered grocery stores and burned-out gas stations along Broadway. Volunteers showed up with brooms to sweep broken glass off the sidewalks; people brought gift cards at struggling shops and donated to North Side nonprofits. But public attention shifted to the next crisis of 2020 and the one after that and the one after that.