Colorado Youth at Risk empowers teenage students to make life choices that positively impact their future through community-based mentoring and intensive training. Host Rachel Sapin finds out more from Executive Director Patty Bennett.

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The Youth Corp provides opportunities for Boulder County teens to develop a sense of community involvement through personal accomplishment, teamwork and service to the county. Since 1996, participants, aged 14-17, have been completing projects for Boulder County departments, municipalities and towns. Corps members benefit by learning strong work habits, new skills and the value of environmental and civic stewardship. County departments, municipalities and towns benefit from the maintenance projects and tangible products such as new trails built by Corp members each summer. Breanna Waxler gets the details from Judy Wolfe.

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This non-violent teacher training helps kids manage childhood obesity, stress, self abuse, bullying, and violent behavior with a comprehensive, classically-based yoga program in the public school system. The concepts in the program are kindness, compassion, and communication. Combining moving energy with a high level of body and breathing awareness to exercise the physical body controls anger and manages stress. Calming Kids Yoga classes incorporate strength, flexibility and flowing postures to work the muscles in an aerobic way to help release excess energy and anxiety, to help relax the body and calm the mind for a happy, healthy, peaceful child. Dee Marla discussed the benefits of the training program to host Nikki Kayser.

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Hope Center is a community-based agency dedicated to meeting the needs of gifted children, individuals with developmental disabilities and developmental delays, at-risk and persons in need of specialized vocational or educational services. These services are provided in order to develop, maintain, and enhance the functioning of each enrollee. Host Alec Harris chats with Bruce Duran.

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Founded in 2002 with the intention of creating an opportunity for women to sing together, and based on the premise that there can never
be too much singing, Resonance Women’s Chorus of Boulder is a 100 plus voice chorus singing contemporary women’s choral music. With an emphasis on songs of social awareness, Resonance is a collective voice of women’s strength, wisdom, and beauty. Founder and director Sue Coffee and singer Cathy Phelan chat with host Nikki Kayser about the comradeship with the group.

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The Colorado Native Plant Society is dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation and conservation of native plants and habitats of Colorado through education, stewardship and advocacy. The purpose of the Colorado Native Plant Society is to encourage the appreciation and conservation of Colorado native plants and their habitats.  The Society identifies and studies Colorado’s native flora, with an emphasis on rare plants and the ecosystems that support them. Host Breanna Draxler gets the details from Crystal Strouse.

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The Boulder County Audubon Society is a voice for migratory bird and wildlife conservation through habitat protection, political action, and education. Host Breanna Draxler gets the details from Petrea Mah, Chapter President.

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In 2009 Prodigal Son Initiative was given space in a church to run their signature after-school program. The program mentors and tutors fifty to seventy-five at-risk students ages eight to thirteen Monday through Thursday for two hours with a healthy snack  and  a group discussion. Mentors allow each child to speak freely about peer pressure, family and community issues they are experiencing, and centers education around nutrition, health and opportunities outside their community. Truancy rates have dropped significantly for all youths involved in our program. During the second hour, the children participate in a variety of activities which have been created through key strategic alliances. Nadia Khasawneh gets the details.

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Up For Pups improves the lives of mistreated domestic animals through creative public education initiatives. They provide free animal advocacy materials to rescue organizations to help them educate the public about pet overpopulation, puppy mills, responsible pet selection and parenting, and volunteer opportunities. They gather information from the top existing dog rescues to develop a comprehensive guide to starting and running a rescue. They also plan to create a simple dog training program for children and dogs in low-income communities that is easily replicable across the nation. Host Kirstin Le Grice gets the details from Kyla Duffy.

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