A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement, and discipline prevail where once kids packed weapons, took drugs, and exhibited “terrible rudeness.â€
There is a striking correlation between violence and nutrients in the diet. A clinical trial at the US government's National Institutes for Health and earlier studies involving people with violent records found that those given supplements have been able for the first time to control their anger and aggression.
Milwaukee theater professionals have been working with local veterans through intensive weekend workshops that allow emotions to boil from the cauldron of conflict within, using the words Shakespeare. The Feast of Crispian program, run out of the Milwaukee's Veterans Affairs hospital, has been such a success that last week it received a $50,000 grant from the Helen Bader Foundation to launch an all-veteran, fully-staged production of Julius Caesar.
The motorcycle group Hells Angels stood in line at the Fresno Walmart for a reported five days so they could buy up the entire stock of children's bicycles that were on sale for Black Friday to give to a local charity.
She is a hero to many kids and families. A Virginia single mom of five who struggles with MS, still has time to coach a youth football team even while working two jobs. Recently, thanks to the NFL's "Together We Make Football" Felicia Correa-Garcia was surprised by her own hero, retired American football star Brian Dawkins.
In a two-day conference over the weekend, Muslim, Jewish and Christian religious leaders from around the world gathered in Abu Dhabi to discuss the challenges of violent religious extremism and identify ways to combat it. Organizers announced a "10-point action plan that they will initiate over the next three years.
The city of Chicago started a summer jobs program for public high school students living in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. Officials hoped it might curb other social ills, like crime rates, that rise when there's no work to be found. A new study hails it as a success.
Diseases affecting the brain and central nervous system represent one of the largest healthcare challenges and greatest unmet medical needs in the world today. This week, a renowned biotech leader Tony Coles, M.D. launched Yumanity Therapeutics, a startup that will use discoveries about yeast to develop new treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Leon Delong figured out that Seattle's office buildings were discarding toilet paper rolls at the end of the day that were small but still had a quarter of the paper. It bothered him, so the retired man asked the janitors to collect the stub rolls, rather than throwing them away. Then Leon delivered them to food banks.
Enlistment has been brisk for 7-Eleven's first franchise giveaway contest offered exclusively to U.S. military veterans. With the Jan. 25 deadline less than two weeks away, more than 1,200 veterans have successfully applied for the corporate give-away called, "Operation: Take Command."
In 1986, the painful Guinea worm disease plagued more than 3.5 million people in Africa and Asia. Last year, there were only 126 cases left -- and thanks to the Carter Center's nearly 30-year campaign, the infectious disease is about to become the second on Earth to eradicated, after smallpox.
The Houston based Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) believes that helping inmates prepare to start their own businesses when they leave prison will reduce the likelihood that they will end up behind bars again. And the program's statistics show it is working extremely well.