Tag: youth
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Working For Good In St. Joseph
A strength of our community is the many people who care for and about others. Our many nonprofits and volunteers who work together to serve and strengthen our community bring hope and resilience. Meet three of those people as Rolling Hills Library celebrates International Women’s Day on Saturday March 8, 2025 at 10:30 am, 1904…
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Our Children Deserve More
Our earlier dialogues quickly turned to questions about supporting our youth. Although we have many good organizations in St. Joe serving youth, — including the Bartlett Center, YWCA, InterServ, and MidCity Excellence, as well as our schools — they can’t address environmental needs like housing, health and food security, or even broader environmental concerns that…
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Community Connecting
This also is what community looks like — people coming together to share common concerns and thoughts. Our dialogue at InterServ on November 16 focused on engaging and empowering youth in our community. It was a lively and thoughtful discussion, and many of the ideas generated focused on relationships and connections. And connection is the focus…
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The Data We Need
It is often said that what gets measured gets done. As we identify ways to support and empower our youth we should also ask, what data is needed to measure progress? What data will help us best ensure that we are making the right investments and providing our youth with opportunities to grow and prosper? …
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Investing In Our Youth
Participants in past dialogues have identified the rising cost of many activities for youth as a significant issue. As the author Matthew Desmond observed in his recent book Poverty, By America, “The best way to ensure that opportunity is unequal and unfair is to charge for it.” Here in St. Joe, who is being excluded…
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Join Us Nov 16! Focus: Supporting Our Youth
Join us on November 16 at InterServ, 5400 King Hill Ave, to discuss how our community can best empower, engage, equip, support and protect youth and young adults in our community. If you are a young leader, we want to hear about your challenges, hopes, and needs. If you work with youth, we want to…
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Encouraging All Voices
How do we work together as a community? How can we encourage and hear from all voices? One theme that came out of the conversations on September 21 was the need to value and embrace the many diverse communities, neighborhoods, and individuals who make up St. Joe. As the notes from that meeting show, not…
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Supporting Our Youth
Our community cares about its youth! And we are concerned that too many are leaving. How do we create a community where children thrive? Where young adults will want to stay and raise their families? Those at our September 21 event had several ideas about how we might support our youth, advocate for youth, and…
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Strengthening Our Community
Lots of thoughts were shared and ideas generated during our conversation on September 21. Members of the community identified many challenges, hopes, and needs as they explored three questions – what is St. Joe to you?, what would you change if you could? and what groups are working to strengthen our communities? As we reviewed…
All Voices St. Joe 