Mental Health: Crisis among young
Mental Health: Crisis among young
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At Thursday’s Stomp Out The Stigma conference, law enforcement and various agencies gathered to create momentum for local change in addressing mental health. Some of the most sobering statistics shared dealt with children and young adults. Dial Help Executive Director Rebecca Crane says over half of the calls her organization fields involve those under the age of 24. Some of that is demographic related. Michigan Tech has an undergraduate enrollment of over 5,500 students, mostly in that age cohort.
Portage Health Foundation Executive Director Kevin Store says his organization has found K-12 students are being subjected to the same stresses as those in college.
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Chassellâs Building Trades class stands in front of a finished sauna headed for Chassell Beach. Members of the class standing left to right: Ethan Hupp, Daba Holmes, James Usitalo, Karl Rautiola, Gabe Torala, Devin Kilpela, Instructor-Michael Randell.
CHASSELL The Chassell Township High School Building Trades class is keeping busy not only with in-class instruction, but also learning life experiences, with the intention of benefiting their community.
Rather than learning shop skills and making bookshelves and end tables, Michael Randell’s class is reaching out and seeing what the people of Chassell Township want built.
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CALUMET TOWNSHIP CLK Elementary School was named a National Showcase School by Capturing Kids’ Hearts earlier this month, according to a release from CLK Elementary School Assistant Principal Julie Giachino.
“This is quite the honor for our school,” said Elementary Principal Matt Hampton, “and is a testament to the incredible work our teachers and support staff have put in since we started this process in 2019.
“The Capturing Kids’ Hearts program has not only enhanced our relationships with students and families, but with colleagues, as well. One CLK Elementary staff member has stated it best as ‘We are capturing peoples’ hearts. ”
Rachael Pressley
Join in these upcoming seed starting & plant events with partners of the Western UP Food Systems Collaborative.
Wednesday, May 12 from 4 to 6 p.m.: Seed Starting Party at Porvoo Park in Hancock. Join the Portage Lake Seed Library in starting seeds for your home garden. Participants will receive free seed starting kits. Free event, open to all.
Saturday, May 15 from 1 to 3 p.m.: Garden sign making & compost share at Ray Kestner Park in Houghton. Join the Growing from the Heart community food growing & sharing program as we make Growing from the Heart signs for home gardens, learn to break-down pallets for sign-making, and connect to share the abundance of local foods with one another this summer. Sign-making supplies will be provided. Extra old scrap wood for signs, crowbar, hammers/nails helpful but not required. Bring containers to take home compost. Free event, open to all.
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Photo provided by Michigan Technological University
Momoko Tajiri performs RNA extraction for a batch of patient samples in the MTU COVID-19 Testing Lab.
HOUGHTON The benefits of a quick testing turnaround for COVID-19 are obvious: a negative relieves stress, a positive enables quarantining and contact tracing that can limit further spread.
In the early days of the pandemic, testing could take more than a week. Early on, Michigan Technological University realized it needed to ramp up testing to get a handle on where things stood locally. With that came the need to analyze those results quickly; hence the on-campus COVID-19 lab, which celebrated its first anniversary Thursday.