Join together to find solutions
My opinion is when we apply continuous integration, communication and collaboration to our planning and efforts on behalf of our youths’ issues, we will realize more progress and success.
I say this because of my sincere concern about the violent behaviors of many of our youth in our city and also their future. We will all benefit from finding solutions and that will require much more participation.
My own personal experiences and challenges as an educator and mother of four have led me to believe that progress will be made when only positive, sustainable and spiritual role models remain invested.
I participated in a program for a Connecticut middle school and a high school designed to prevent student dropout in the mid-’80s. A deliberate, diverse and inclusive group of school staff, the potential “dropouts,” parents, and community members, together, developed projects, strategies and activities that amazingly improved the problems and discouraging attitudes. Our reframing a mind-set of “them and us” positively affected our efforts, too.