Sarah Cincotta woke up in the hospital earlier this year after a 20-hour seizure, a result of her multiple sclerosis. “When I woke up, I didn’t even have the ability to say my name,” she says. Cincotta was reassured, however, that her daughter, Pearl, who is just over 2 years old now, was not alone […]
Center for Youth
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Center for Youth expands west
The Center for Youth is expanding into the Buffalo area to provide social-emotional support programs to the Kenmore-Tonawanda School District, says Elaine Spaull, the agency’s executive director. “The Kenmore-Tonawanda School District, which is comprised of many excellent administrators and teachers, found they needed some triaging and some alternative support for their middle-school youth,” she says. […]
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‘People just want to know that their lives matter’
A few years ago, the Center for Youth started a program called New Beginnings for young black men who lacked the credits needed to graduate. They typically had grade point averages bordering on minus zero. If Our Streets Could Talk Rough from Matthew Spaull on Vimeo. The center has put together, “If Our Streets Could […]
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Reading program helps stave off the ‘summer slide’
When children leave school for the summer, research shows that many lose a significant percentage of the knowledge and skills they developed during the school year. It varies from child to child, but some studies show that children can lose as much as half of the academic gains they’ve made. Some educators refer to it […]
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A crisis for youth in crisis
The Hillside Family of Agencies stopped providing emergency housing for homeless and runaway youth earlier this year. The shelter, which operated since the 1970’s, has seen a considerate drop in state funding over the last several years. Hillside received $107,437 in runaway and homeless youth program funding from the state in 2008, and $29,150 in […]
