Teens

Lady GaGa’s Born This Way Foundation

March 15, 2012

Lee Rush, Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition’s Community Mobilizer, was invited along with 80 other national leaders to Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society to help launch Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation (BTWF). 

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Parent Chat Update

March 15, 2012

A group of Palisades parents gathered on January 5th at the Ottsville Fire Company for a UBHCHY Coalition’s Parent Chat. The topic for the evening was Crime and Our Youth and the guest speakers were police officers from Upper Bucks County. 

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AlcoholEdu – by Jordan Rheam, Quakertown High School Senior

March 15, 2012

Lee Rush, Executive Director of justCommunity, visited Quakertown High School last fall to observe students using the online AlcoholEdu Program.  Rush wanted to observe a participating health class using the course after obtaining a $15,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) to purchase the program. 

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Second Annual Performing Arts Festival Draws Local Crowds and Community Praise

December 19, 2011

Four minutes to show time and there was not an empty seat to be seen.  It wasn’t Gaga or Beiber who enticed the crowd to fill the auditorium, but a group of talented teens, poets, singers, song writers and actors– the Lady Gagas of the future.  After folding chairs were hastily dragged into the hall [...]

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First-Ever Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP) a Success

December 19, 2011

Thanks to a two-year grant through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD), the area coalition in the Palisades community called Partners in Action for Community Togetherness (PACT) is sponsoring the research-based program called The Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14 (SFP).  

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2012 Youth Surveys Conducted, Results Revealed Early Next Year

December 19, 2011

For the fourth time in the last ten years, the Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition (UBHCHY) has completed the bi-annual youth survey given to 3,000 students in 8th, 10th and 12th grades in the Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown schools.

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Keeping an Eye on the “Spirits” of the Season

December 19, 2011

It’s that time of year when kids are probably itching for holiday vacation, counting down the days to extended time off from school until the New Year.

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Annual Theatre Arts Fest to Take Place on December 11th

December 4, 2011

justCommunity, Inc., is hosting the 2nd Annual Performing Arts Festival on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011 at 3:30 and 7 pm at the James Lorah House, 132 N. Main Street, Doylestown. In the spirit of promoting positive youth development, justCommunity has chosen the theme of this year’s festival as “What’s on Your Mind?”

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