Gracias por mantener a nuestra juventud en su corazón.
Happy Valentine’s Day, from all of us at Spectrum.
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¡Gracias por un gran tazón vacío!
I was awestruck by the compassion and caring you showed for our youth at the Empty Bowl. I am so grateful that our young people can rely on you to offer a hand when the going gets tough.
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Las palabras que nunca querrás escuchar a un padre decir
Our executive director recently received a note from a mom whose son is consumed with his addiction. “I myself feel very guilty and a failure as parent because I knew this could happen to him. I talked to him about it several times…” she wrote. “But talking and a good family weren’t enough.” You can read Mark’s response in the …
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¿Hablando de adicción? La elección de palabras es importante.
This spring, the Associated Press Stylebook removed the word “addict” as a noun. This change is important for humanizing people with drug addictions. “When you call someone an addict, it reduces them to just that,” said Mark Redmond, our ED. “But it’s just one element of their being — they’re a mother or a brother …
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En una escuela remota del desierto de Mojave…
“…extraordinary educators believe that, more than academics, it is love, empathy and life skills that give at-risk students command of their own futures. This coming-of-age story watches education combat the crippling effects of poverty on the lives of these so-called ‘bad kids.'”
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