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Obama travels country promoting opportunity for everyone President Barack Obama (speaking at podium) visited several US cities last week, after his State of the Union Address to the US Congress and American public. One of those stops was in Waukesha, Wisconsin where the president visited the General Electric gas engines facility. During his stop there, the president discussed his opportunity agenda, which he mentioned during his SOTU address, which includes: to create more new jobs; train individuals to fill those jobs; guarantee every child access to as world-class education; and make sure hard work pays off. He also highlighted Wisconsin’s youth apprenticeship programs, which offer residents the skills they need to fill a job. Also pictured with the president are student apprentices of Big Step, a local training partnership focusing on the industrial trades.
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Doerfler 1st graders win MLK contest
The first grade students in Room 109 at Doerfler School wrote the winning entry for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., K-1 group project writing contest. Their book, entitled “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Dream: A Nonviolence Handbook,” incorporates Dr. King’s ideals and the students’ ideas for applying his dream in their own lives. The class is taught by Mrs. Connie Michaud and Mrs. Tammy Sorrel. The theme of this year’s essay contest was ‘Nonviolence . . . the most potent weapon.’ The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Student Essay Contest, in its 31st year, is sponsored by the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Grant support for SDC Youth Program A new grant from the Families Moving Forward Coalition will enable an SDC program to help youth and families. The funding support will assist SDC’s “Exploring Our Creativity- Our Choices Always Matter” project. This effort will allow the agency’s Youth and Family Development Program (YFDP) to increase awareness of mental health and substance abuse challenges to youth as well as reduce stigma that is attached to it. Event Photo A variety of creative methYoung people participate in creating a mural as an art ods will help make participating young people more project with SDC’s Youth programs. aware of their daily activity
choices. The project will utilize a range of tools such as Art Therapy, Music/Poetry/ Spoken Word, Mind & Body Therapies, and Comedy Improvisation workshops. The grant from the Families Moving Forward Coalition includes funding for two special events during the coming year, including a Mental Health Awareness Fair in May and a Comedy Sports Improvisational Workshop for youth to be held as part of the program’s Back to School Rally planned for late summer or early fall. The Families Moving Forward Coalition is a Milwaukee area community-based
coalition of organizations that includes treatment providers, providers of other preventative and supportive services, and faith-based social services. The grant to the SDC youth program is part of an overall prevention programming grant from Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division, which is working to serve and reduce risk in the community. To learn more about the YFDP programs and services at SDC, visit www.cr-sdc. org/index/Programs--Services/Family-Strengthening/ Youth-and-Family-Development-Program.htm.