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The Youth Risk Behavior Survey in N.H. - Should Parents Opt In Or Opt Out? - InDepthNH.org
Featured in Category By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org | 1 hour ago Courtesy photo Students from Franklin, Interlakes, and Newfound High Schools joined forces on February 16, 2022 to learn about NAMI NH's Connect Suicide Prevention Program. They will return to their schools to educate their peers and communities in an effort to raise awareness about mental health issues and suicide prevention. This effort was funded through a NH DOE Promising Future's Grant.
Waypoint’s First-in-the-State Emergency Youth Shelter Coming to Manchester - InDepthNH.org
Bronstein Park By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org | 45 mins ago TERRY FARISH photo Ellie Huot, Case Manager, Chrissy Villeneuve, Pregnant and Parenting Program, and Renee Condo, Peer Counselor, beside supplies for new mothers at the Waypoint Youth Resource Center serving homeless youths. By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org In Waypoint’s annual fundraiser Sleep Out, hundreds of people across the state sleep outside in chilling observance of all the young people who are sleeping outside.
The Prohibition on Teaching Discrimination is Alive in NH Law - InDepthNH.org
Uncategorized By TERRY FARISH | 4 hours ago Courtesy photo Rep. Charlotte DiLorenzo, D-Newmarket By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org On Tuesday, the House Education Committee voted down four bills that would have repealed or altered the recently enacted law on the Prohibition on Teaching Discrimination. Rep. Charlotte DiLorenzo, D- Newmarket, was the primary sponsor of one of the bills, HB1090, a bill that would have repealed the “divisive concepts” law passed as a trailer to the budget last June.
‘Divisive Concepts’: Black Heritage Trail of NH Speaks Out to Educators and Communities - InDepthNH.org
JerriAnne Boggis, executive director of the Black Heritage Trail. Terry Farish photo By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire already knew it, the words of Elizabeth Dubrulle, director of education and public programs of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
'Sick of Waiting,' New Report Documents Barriers to Medicaid - InDepthNH.org
See report here: http://indepthnh.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SickofWaiting_New-Hampshire-20220201.pdf By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Manchester mother Marcella Termini says she didn’t know her young autistic twin sons were eligible for Medicaid benefits. Finally, she learned, through the organization New Hampshire Family Voices, that her sons were eligible for a Medicaid benefit that supports home care for children with severe disabilities.
FEAST! Picture Books About Food and Friends Across Culture
by Here’s a list of new and recent picture books that celebrate food and culture. They all highlight people coming together to share delicious dishes and joy-filled cooking adventures. The list includes a book about a new family and how the children experience the different foods of each of their two sets of grandparents. It also includes books on the joy of a food truck festival and the excitement of curious kids discovering the variety of foods found in their neighborhood.
Coral Hampe Calls for No Vote on HB 1015 - 'Teachers Are Called to Teach' - InDepthNH.org
Education By Terry Farish | January 26, 2022 Courtesy photo NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org President of the Timberlane Teachers’ Association Coral Hampe has called on lawmakers to vote no on HB 1015. The bill seeks to require teachers to provide curricular materials for all courses to the community and allow parents to place objections on materials and require schools to provide alternative instruction.
Half Way Home: Housing and the Formerly Incarcerated - InDepthNH.org
By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org | 3 mins ago By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org Marcos Nieves lived in Hampshire House in Manchester, federal transitional housing for people reentering New Hampshire communities from federal prisons. He needed an apartment or, to begin, a room in a rooming house. He had a job at Popeyes earning $13 an hour. He has skills running heavy equipment and wants to get another job in construction or in a warehouse.
A N.H. Housing Story - InDepthNH.org
Amber Mac Quarrie By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org | November 2, 2021 By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Amber MacQuarrie is 34 and studying business at Southern New Hampshire University. She’s a single mom with a son, Ethan, almost 12, and daughter, Olive, 9, who she homeschools. Until this summer, she ran a day care in her house. She supported her family and paid rent of $1,400 a month. When her landlord sold the building she lived in, the new owner doubled the rent.
Slam Ready: What Teen Poet Laureates of New Hampshire Are Up To - InDepthNH.org
Join them on Zoom for their Inaugural Reading, October 12, 7 p.m. In a piercingly quick brainstorm on Zoom, the team of teen poets laureate of New Hampshire, and their mentor Jimmy Pappas of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire planned the first events of their laureateship: their inaugural reading and open mic, a call for submissions to their journal, Good Poetry Zine, and a possible slam in Whitefield.
THE GOOD BRAIDER
Cherise Boothe narrates this award-winning story of war, dislocation, and immigration with restrained feeling. Her soft cadence is measured so as not to overwhelm the listener but holds enough vigor to testify to the horrors experienced by Viola, the teenaged protagonist. Boothe's lilting voice captures the Sudanese background of the novel, lacing the speech of the older characters with a slight accent that makes their dialogue authentic.
Water Has a Memory – Strawbery Banke Documents Sea Level Rise - InDepthNH.org
Business & Economy By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org | 16 mins ago Courtesy An illustration from Water Has Memory exhibit which is an artistic representation of sea level rise in Puddle Dock Rodney Rowland By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org In a new exhibit, Strawbery Banke is documenting sea level rise here in New Hampshire. They’re doing it at Puddle Dock which is the lowest land in the City of Portsmouth because it was built on fill.
Victory Women of Vision Reunite in Manchester - InDepthNH.org
Business & Economy By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org | 52 mins ago Terry Farish photo Mary Georges of Manchester was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Terry Farish photo Victory Women of Vision gather in Manchester Terry Farish photo By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org 2nd in an occasional series on views of older women and employment On Saturday, on Elm Street in Manchester, Mary N.
Older Women Workers in NH: The Lives Behind the Data - InDepthNH.org
Editor’s note: This is the first in an occasional series on older women in the workforce and unemployed older women seeking to return to work in New Hampshire. By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Erine Leigh turned 70 in April. She is a massage therapist in Portsmouth. During the pandemic she stopped paying rent downtown and moved her practice home. She also works as a $16/hr, fill-in, short-order chef at Earth Eagle Brewery.
Writing Music with Michael Provides Hope and Joy During Pandemic - InDepthNH.org
Chick Corea By Terry Farish, InDepthNH.org | 37 mins ago Terry Farish photo Catherine FitzPatrick and Michael Furlong at the piano. Catherine FitzPatrick and Michael Furlong By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org June 21, 2021 This is the story of how two people at a small group home turned to music in the pandemic. Catherine FitzPatrick and Michael Furlong have worked together since Michael left the Laconia State School, where he had lived for 10 years. In recent years, two things changed.
Home in N.H. - a young girl journeys from homelessness
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Home in NH – a Young Girl Journeys from Homelessness - InDepthNH.org
By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Brittany Hall has an apartment in Rochester, a job, and a Chinese dwarf hamster named Peanuts her cousin gave her. She was the second youth in New Hampshire to find temporary housing through a new program at Waypoint, a nonprofit formerly called Child and Family Services. It was 2019. That year Hall met Amy Malone, a case manager with the new program called Rapid Rehousing. They met on the Commons in Rochester.
One Actor in Portsmouth Brings the Black History of His Hometown to Life - InDepthNH.org
By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Dense snow all around. Fierce wind. We’re at Prescott Park at that corner of Marcy St. and lower State St. by the Memorial Bridge. I’d asked Kevin Wade Mitchell to sing one of the songs he told me about. One he’d sung as a kid when his teacher, Miss Tracey, in Portsmouth’s old Wentworth School, called on him, the entertainer at aged 9, to sing at the end of class. “Well,” he says. “Can’t remember all the lines. Got a Sam Cooke.” He pulls his mask partially down.
Gospel Concert Celebrates Martin Luther King Jan. 18 Live Streamed - InDepthNH.org
COVID-19 By TERRY FARISH | 18 mins ago Courtesy photo Kevin Wade Mitchell, actor and scholar with the Black Heritage Trail will perform at the “Set the House on Fire Gospel Concert” Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan.
10 YA Novels Re-imagine Shakespeare Works
From a choose-your-own-path Romeo and Juliet to a Macbeth retelling that channels #MeToo, there's something here for all teen readers and fans of the Bard. As I Descended. Robin Talley. HarperTeen. 2016. Something wicked comes to Virginia’s elite Acheron Academy in this modern retelling of Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s darkest works. A séance reveals cryptic prophecies and opens the door to spirits, leaving the characters unable to control their actions.
To Teach or Not To Teach: Is Shakespeare Still Relevant to Today
Some educators abandon teaching the Bard's work, while others update and enhance Shakespeare curricula. English teacher Elizabeth Neilson uses an array of references to keep Shakespeare fresh.
Two Young Women from Nepal, a Pandemic, a Chance for a Senior Year - InDepthNH.org
Education By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org | 27 mins ago Terry Farish photo Puja Thapa and Benajil Rai came from Kathmandu to study at Keene State College. By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org “It is the girls, it is the women, who really can change the family, the society, the community, the world.” Usha Acharya In 2017, two girls from Kathmandu, Puja Thapa and Benajil Rai, came to New Hampshire to study at Keene State College. Thapa became a business major with a minor in studio art.
The joy of Barrington's walking trails
I found a little book at Calef’s Country Store in Barrington called "Jim Schulz’s Walking Trails of Barrington, NH, Updated and Revised" by John Wallace, 2020. I wanted to meet this John Wallace. I didn’t know he’d been head of the Barrington Conservation Commission for 15 years and was until about a year ago. I didn’t live in the town. But I had walked the Pooh Trail just off Route 9 many times with my daughter. Did John Wallace know anything about how the Pooh Trail came to be?
Once More to the Forest: The Walking Trails of Barrington Reprised - InDepthNH.org
By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org I found a little book at Calef’s Country Store in Barrington called Jim Schulz’s Walking Trails of Barrington, NH, Updated and Revised by John Wallace, 2020. I wanted to meet this John Wallace. I didn’t know he’d been head of the Barrington Conservation Commission for 15 years and was until about a year ago. I didn’t live in the town. But I had walked the Pooh Trail just off Route 9 many times with my daughter.
FreeMoe, the Rise of Artist Mawouko Aboussa in Concord - InDepthNH.org
By TERRY FARISH, InDepthNH.org Mawouko Aboussa explained in his college entrance essay to the Art Institute of New York City that the reason he was interested in fashion design was because as a boy “we didn’t have any clothes.” That’s one way he describes life in Benin, the country east of Togo, where his family fled to escape long violence at home. He was 3 years old. Aboussa’s family is from the village of Aného on the West African coast in the country of Togo.
#ReadHoney: 23 YA Titles to Add to Your Book Bucket List
A la Carte by Tanita S. Davis When Lainey’s best friend (who she wishes was her boo) leaves town, that also leaves Lainey questioning her dream of becoming a celebrity chef. The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson To win the heart of his ex-best friend Gaby, Jackson considers going down a road he’d sworn off for good. Promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland Her sister’s murder leads Zephyr to unleash a hidden power that may end up saving more than just herself.
Why Dance Each Other's Dances? Feel the Beat of Our Cultural Histories
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase, Multicultural Kid Blogs receives a small commission to help run the site. Why dance each other’s dances? Because we are each other. Come with me on my journey into some unforgettable children’s and teen books about dance, and feel the beat of our cultural histories.
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