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Susan Crown Exchange Launches New Challenge: Youth Voice in the Digital Age
Digital life is a deeply personal and highly complex experience for young people. But when it comes to making digital spaces more welcoming or community-oriented, youth state that they remain largely on their own. They feel ...
Catalyst Grantee Profile: Greater Chicago Food Depository
Greater Chicago Food Depository Interview with Alexandra Funk, Senior Manager of Corporate & Foundation Relations, Greater Chicago Food Depository Organization Name Greater Chicago Food Depository Organization Website chicagosfoodbank.org Population Served The Food Depository provides food assistance and ...
Collective Challenge Approach Creates Lasting Leverage and Legacy
This October, we hosted the final convening of our most recent Digital Leaning Challenge. Our learning community of leaders from exemplar out-of-school time organizations, expert researchers and the SCE team came together to reflect on the ...
New Infrastructure Takes Shape—Digital Citizenship
Over the last 10 years of partnering closely with experts in digital learning and social and emotional learning, SCE has witnessed practitioners and educators recognize that these soft and hard skills intersect, inform, overlap and enhance ...
Takeaways From Youth Listening Sessions on the Rights and Responsibilities of Digital Citizenship
To further understand the youth experience online, SCE partnered with Chicago Ideas to conduct youth listening sessions, with a particular emphasis on how youth view their “rights and responsibilities.” To support these youth-centered conversations, Chicago Ideas ...
Catalyst Grantee Profile: Vox Teen Communications
Vox Teen Communications Interview with Susan Landrum, Executive Director, Vox Teen Communications Organization Name VOX Teen Communications Organization Website www.voxatl.org Population Served Teens ages 13-19 in metro Atlanta (Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties) Organization ...
Catalyst Grantee Profile: Center on Halsted
Center on Halsted Interview with Modesto Valle, CEO, Center on Halsted Organization Name Center on Halsted Organization Website centeronhalsted.org Population Served LGBTQ and allies Organization Location Chicago, IL Founding Year 1973 Organization Mission Center on Halsted ...
Catalyst Grantee Profile: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Interview with John Draper, Executive Director, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Executive Vice President of National Networks, Vibrant Emotional Health Organization Name Vibrant Emotional Health. Vibrant administers the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for ...