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Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative (WCCI) Member Spotlight

This past week an intern working in collaboration with WCCI, Brittney Craven, sat down (virtually) with Yolanda Adams, Family Resource Coordinator for Watauga County Schools. She spoke with us on Brittney: Would you mind introducing yourself and explaining your various roles in the community? Yolanda: My name is Yolanda Adams and I am the family resource coordinator for Watauga County Schools. I have been employed by Watauga Schools for seven years now and this position for about three...

Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative (WCCI) Member Spotlight

A couple weeks ago, a WCCI intern, Brittney Craven, sat down (virtually) with Candis Walker, Watauga County Schools Prevention Counselor. She spoke with us on the value of finding and using resiliency skills that work for each of us. Below is the transcript of the conversation: Brittney: Hello! This is Brittney Craven and I'm being joined today by Candis Walker. Thank you so much for joining me. Would you mind introducing yourself and explaining your various roles in the community? Candis:...

Watauga Compassionate Community Initiative (WCCI) Member Spotlight

A couple weeks ago, a WCCI intern, Brittney Craven, sat down (virtually) with Jennifer Warren, the Executive Director of Western Youth Network located in Boone, NC. She spoke with us on keeping hope, the importance of universal screening and early intervention, as well as, prevention. Below is the transcript of the conversation: Brittney: Hello! This is Brittney Craven and I am joined today by Jennifer Warren. Thank you so much for joining me. Would you mind introducing yourself and...

ACEs Science Champions Series: Byron Hall: A mentor rich with experience counsels teen parents in NC

Byron Hall mentors adolescent parents for the Community Enrichment Organization , a nonprofit in Tarboro, NC, which partners with a program that supports to keep adolescent parents in school. One of the parents he mentors is 13 years old. At the age of 17, Hall was an adolescent parent himself, growing up with a single parent in the Bronx, NY, then an African American community where drug-dealing and prostitution were common. For the counselor, helping these young men and women, who are...

 
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