Thank you for keeping our youth in your heart.
Happy Valentine’s Day, from all of us at Spectrum.
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Tag Archives: mark redmond
Thank you for a great Empty Bowl!
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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The words you never want to hear a parent say
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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Talking about addiction? Word choice matters.
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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At a remote Mojave Desert school…
“…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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