Written by our Youth Educator Katrina Clark, as a #WeeklyWisdom for the Community Coalition for Healthy Youth. Yoga provides us with an opportunity to reconnect with ourselves – our breath, our bodies, our movement, our thoughts, and other sensations. A yoga practice can serve as a way to cultivate a sense of agency, or creative…

Written by our Youth Education Coordinator, Lyn Staack, as a Community Coalition for Healthy Youth Weekly Wisdom message. When I learned that February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, my first thought was “Great, I get to be the person who ruins Valentine’s Day by talking about relationship abuse.”  Since then, I…

Since 2007 January has been National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. A time to raise awareness about a multi–billion–-dollar criminal industry that violates the human rights of millions of people around the world and here in the Finger Lakes region of New York.  Human trafficking is the buying, selling, and/or transportation of a person for the purpose…