Marathon County to launch pilot mentoring program for at-risk youths
Marathon County will launch a remodeled supportive services pilot program for court-ordered at-risk youth who need additional supervision and guidance beginning in June, officials said this week.
Damakant Jayshi
Marathon County will launch a remodeled supportive services pilot program for court-ordered at-risk youth who need additional supervision and guidance beginning in June, officials said this week.
The Youth Opportunity Center is a transition from the “traditional model of shelter care” for at-risk youth in Marathon County to “the re-integration of accountability and prevention…
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Be Strong Addresses CDC Troubling Findings
Be Strong Addresses CDC Troubling Findings
To most, the statistics in the newly released 2021 CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey are staggering. Nearly 60 percent of teenage girls persistently feel sad and hopeless, while 35 percent made a suicide plan. Self-harm, dating violence, forced sex are now more common than not in our teenagers. The recent data is enough to spur a call to action. Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland said, “The news…
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one of the main reasons i love ofmd is the unapologetic queer joy they show us. there's not a single moment where the drama revolves around a character's "coming out" moment. there's no need to accept or reject anyone for what they identify as. like, for fuck's sake, there have been so many moments in the show where they explicitly tell us, "hey, this is us, take it or leave it." no explanations, no justifications—just pure, unfiltered representation. it truly drives in the point that at the end of the day, queer people are also just simply people.
as much as i appreciate the abundance of queer representation we're getting now, i cannot emphasize how much a show like ofmd means to me. i am begging more companies to do what ofmd is doing and just show queer people living as boring old fucking people instead of as victims. take us beyond existing as an educational tool or a plot device. show queer people being people, and we'll stop being victims.
"kill me. kill us all. our spirit will last throughout your entire fսckin' empire because... we're good." you know what this show teaches us? that queer people are resilient as fuck, and that whatever we may have been told, shown, and made to believe about our queerness is wrong. we're good. we continue to be good despite the hardships we face. despite all the shit our elders and trailblazers have gone through from the beginning. despite the political landscapes of today that continue to try to strip us of our dignity and rights. we still exist and we will continue to exist—as people first, and victims last.
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{ the thought of the day: reshiram putting her snout right in a pringles can }
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You're better off for having made the regrettable decisions you made when you were younger.
Sure, you regret them now, maybe looking back on them causes you pain, and now you devote your life to taking away other people's right to make those same "mistakes" so they won't have to suffer as you did, but you're still better off.
Making a decision and realizing "Wait, this was a BAD decisions. I DON'T want this!" was a necessary element of your process of learning what a good decision is, or what you do want. That bad partner you dated, that bad investment you made, that irrevocable mistake made you who you are.
No matter how much you insist otherwise, you're better off.
Does that make you angry? Offended? Ready to send me furious denunciations for how unforgivably presumptious I am to have the absolute audacity to tell YOU what's best for you in your OWN life?
Good. It should.
You have every reason to be angry at what I just said! I don't know what's best for you! I'm not you! I don't know your personal lived experience! That's absolutely correct!
Presuming that I know what's best for you better than you know what's best for yourself is absolutely offensive!
But that's what you're doing. That's what you're advocating.
Consider that I do not have, nor am I advocating anyone else to have, any legal, social, or economic power over you and your choices, but you are advocating that you (or someone) have legal, social, or economic power over someone else's choices.
Everyone deserves autonomy. Everyone deserves dignity of risk. Your regrets are not a good reason to violate someone else's basic rights.
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