Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets

Montana Program Makes Youth Offenders Talk with Their Victims and Recidivism Plummets

CRYJ juvenile criminal justice center in Montana – submitted by CRYJ In Montana, a focus on restorative justice is reducing juvenile recidivism through a nonprofit program that engages them, rather than punishes them. The nonprofit believes that it’s actually far more challenging for juvenile offenders to look their victims in the eye and explain why … Read more

Father Saves 10 from Bar Fire at Swiss New Year’s Party After Frantic Call from His Daughter

Father Saves 10 from Bar Fire at Swiss New Year’s Party After Frantic Call from His Daughter

– An image from social media just before the fire Out of the fire that claimed over 40 young lives in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve comes a story of heroism and coincidence that allowed an Italian Swiss father to help rescue 10 of the youth trapped inside the underground venue. In the Swiss town … Read more

CNN Hero of the Year Turns Vacant Lots on Chicago’s South Side into Flower Farms

CNN Hero of the Year Turns Vacant Lots on Chicago’s South Side into Flower Farms

Quilen Blackwell – credit, CNN Newsroom, released Hope and opportunity are blossoming on the South Side of Chicago where a man and his wife have used flowers to help poor communities turn over a new leaf. Running two nonprofits, Southside Blooms and Chicago Eco House, Quilen Blackwell and his wife Hannah Bonham are helping at-risk … Read more

19-Year-old Defeats His Former HS Civics Teacher in Local Election: ‘I’m so proud of him’

19-Year-old Defeats His Former HS Civics Teacher in Local Election: ‘I’m so proud of him’

A recent local election in Virginia was surprising not only because of its outcome but because of its unusual civility. In Surrey County, Virginia, a 19-year-old had the courage and audacity to run against the incumbent Conservative for a seat on the Surry County Board of Supervisors. But there was a catch: He would need … Read more

Play These Mobile Games Designed to Help Save Dying Aboriginal Language and Culture

Play These Mobile Games Designed to Help Save Dying Aboriginal Language and Culture

Screenshots from the Nyiyaparli living language project app – credit, supplied by Nyiyaparli Widi An Australian Aboriginal community with only 8 fluent speakers left has launched a mobile phone game to help reconnect their youth with the tongue of their ancestors. The game allows you to help preserve a wetland nature reserve where the community … Read more

Gen Z is Turning Out to be More Financially Strategic Than Their Stereotype Portends

Gen Z is Turning Out to be More Financially Strategic Than Their Stereotype Portends

Credit: Igal Ness Is Gen Z the strategic generation? A new poll shows they are shunning impulse spending in favor of long-term goals. The new nationwide survey of 2,000 Gen Z American adults (defined as those born between 1997 and 2012) revealed that one in three (33%) identified themselves as planners who budget, track spending, … Read more