Monthly Archives January 2023

  Gina Brotherton Mayo, Career Readiness Facilitator & Special Projects Coordinator, and Michael Williams-Brown, Youth Career Coach—both staff of the KRA PGWorks Employment & Training Program—co-presented two “Resilience for Success” Workshops: The Snap-Back: A Youth-Focused Guide to Developing Resilience for Success at the Gateway of Your Future demonstrated the importance that resilience plays in the success of our Youth, and included guidance on how to navigate the pitfalls of life, while maintaining motivation and focus. Ms. Mayo discussed the “7 C’s”, the essential building blocks of resilience; mapping out a Personal Resilience Plan; and explored Best Practices on how and
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January 15, 2023 A Time to Remember, Reflect, and Resolve to Realize His Dream Known generally as the “March on Washington”, the rally was actually promoted as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a call-to-action as critical today as it was, sadly, 60 years ago on August 28, 1963. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech, regarded as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory, to a crowd estimated at 200,000 strong. An excerpt from Dr. King’s 17-minute speech includes, “I say
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