October 2025

Teens as Change-makers: Inspiring Youth Leadership in Communities

Across the globe, youth are advancing to address issues, voice concerns, and take action for the greater good. Their voices are articulating a vision for the future that yields results for environmental sustainability, social justice, and more. The success is due to youth leadership development, the methodical means of helping youth grow the self-confidence, skills, […]

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Friendship First: Building Trust and Respect in High School

Healthy teen friendships play an important role in the overall social, spiritual, emotional, and mental development of teens and pre-teens. It shapes their identity. Through interactions with friends, teens learn to define relationships. Relationships with friends help fill within them their additional need of social support and social acceptance that is vital for healthy development.

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Carrying the Torch: How Edward’s Legacy Inspires Today’s Students

Across generations, there are people who will continue to inspire individuals long after they transition. For the Edward Taylor Coombs Foundation (ETC Foundation), one can’t think of inspirational people, without thinking of a person who inspired in life and beyond, Edward “Eddie” Coombs. Since the formation of the foundation in 2011, the ETC Foundation has

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