Best Life: New program to help adults learn how to read
Best Life: New program to help adults learn how to read By Ivanhoe Broadcast News | March 8, 2021 at 7:36 AM CST - Updated March 8 at 5:04 PM
CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) â Itâs a crisis hidden in plain sight, about 20 percent of people in the United States cannot read at all and 50 percent of adults canât read past an eighth-grade level. An organization is looking to change the numbers when it comes to adult illiteracy.
From high unemployment, low wages, even poor health care.
âPeople who canât read have all kinds of troubles in life that you might not even think of,â Joanne Telser-Frere, Director of Program Development at Literacy Chicago told Ivanhoe.
Small businesses are still struggling, but not for reason you may think
Two women share how they are helping after riots, looting, destruction in 2020
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CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – First the pandemic, an intense election, then rioting and looting. It’s no doubt that many small businesses are still struggling to recover right now. Here’s how you can help.
Felicia Goodwin is a former nurse turned business owner. Nine years ago, she opened a boutique clothing store with her daughter Zimah.
“Mom put everything into the store,” said Zimah Goodwin, Co-Owner of Z Couture. Then, riots and looting coming out of the George Floyd protests demolished everything overnight. “She was really, really, really, really upset cause all her hard work was just like .” “Ruined, destroyed, torn apart,” added Felicia Goodwin, Co-Owner of Z Couture.
Hope Squad program in schools help teens identify peers at suicide risk
If you have thoughts of suicide, call National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Ivanhoe Newswire) – The suicide rate for kids ages 10 through 14 tripled from 2007 to 2017.
In 2019, suicide rates among older teens and young adults reached the highest point in almost two decades. And experts aren’t yet sure what impact the pandemic will have on kids and young adults. Now, there’s an evidence-based program that taps teens to identify peers who could be at suicide risk.
High school is supposed to be a time for making memories. But it’s also a time when teens are in turmoil.
Kids receive their most cognitive and academic stimulation from childcare providers, study says
Study finds when parents provide higher levels of stimulation at home, children will have more of a benefit from childcare activities
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BETHESDA, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Have you ever watched a toddler’s face and seen the “wheels turning?” Young children soak in everything going on around them.
That cognitive stimulation through conversations and books and music is critical to development. Now, social scientists are studying kids’ environment and their caregivers to see what difference the adults have on kids’ early academic skills.
Natasha Cabrera, a child development specialist at the University of Maryland studied the influence of different caregivers on the academic skills of 1,650 kids from two-parent households.