Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

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IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

By Rozalyn Shepard

Suggest one way we can help young people access the skills, training, and opportunities they need to become employable and build a financially sustainable future.

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

Families cannot build stable futures without access to sustainable income. When people lack job training, employment, apprenticeships, career connections, and wealth education, poverty can continue from one generation to the next. Financial pressure can also increase stress within families and limit the choices available to young people.

A lack of legitimate opportunity does not define a young person’s potential. However, when young people do not see a realistic pathway to employment and economic stability, they can become more vulnerable to exploitation, negative influences, and choices connected to survival rather than purpose.

The Create Conversations Community addresses the lack of sustainable income through job training, jobs, apprenticeships, internships, career readiness, workforce development, and wealth education. These opportunities help young people develop the skills, experience, income, and knowledge needed to create a future beyond poverty and violence.

Comment below and suggest one way we can help young people access the skills, training, and opportunities they need to become employable and build a financially sustainable future.

We are raising $50,000 as an initial launch development milestone, not as the full budget for the initiative. This first step will help us begin building the foundation for the larger vision. If you believe every young person deserves a safer, more hopeful future and you believe in this work, please support the launch by making a gift, hosting an online fundraiser, or sharing this post.

Learn more about the program and give here: https://givebutter.com/support-sustainable-community....

Join the Create Conversations Community Facebook group and remain connected to the conversation:

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For more in depth program information, email conversations@risenetwork.net.

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Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

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IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

What skill or opportunity made or would have made the greatest difference in your life when you were young?

Education Is the Key to Future Workforce

IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

Education is more than earning a diploma. It is one of the foundations of confidence, leadership, problem-solving, career readiness, and future opportunity. When young people lack academic support, mentorship, leadership development, or a connection between learning and employment, they may have difficulty seeing a positive path forward.

When young people cannot see a future connected to education and opportunity, hopelessness can grow. That hopelessness can increase vulnerability to negative influences and make it harder to choose pathways that lead away from violence.

The Create Conversations Community views educating youth as an investment in future workforce development. Through Journey to Leadership, young people will be connected to mentors, leadership training, career readiness, practical skills, internships, and opportunities that help them understand how education can lead to purpose, employment, and economic independence.

Comment below and tell me: When you were young, what educational support, skill, or opportunity made, or would have made, the greatest difference in preparing you for the workforce?

We are raising $50,000 as an initial launch-development milestone, not as the full budget for the initiative. This first step will help us begin building the foundation for the larger vision.

If you believe every young person deserves a safer, more hopeful future and you believe in this work, please support the launch by making a gift, hosting an online fundraiser, or sharing this post.

Learn more about the program and give here:

https://givebutter.com/support-sustainable-community...

For more in-depth program information, email conversations@risenetwork.net.

The final post in the series, “Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence,” will be published on Tuesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m.

Please share this post and let’s Build the Future, Together.

Rozalyn Shepard

Create Conversations Community

Rise Network Community Development Corporation

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I Use AI Every Day.
That’s Exactly Why I
Believe We Need
AI Governance.

Op-ed By Dr. Tamika Quinn

By Dr. Tamika Quinn, Founder of G.L.A.M. Wellness Group

I use artificial intelligence every day.

I learn it. I teach it. I build with it. I use it to develop ideas, organize information, create systems, increase productivity and accomplish things that would have required an entire team just a few years ago.

So when I talk about the risks of artificial intelligence, I’m not standing on the sidelines yelling that technology is evil or that robots are coming to get us.

I believe AI is one of the most powerful tools of our lifetime.

And that is exactly why I believe we need to talk seriously about governance.

This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after spending the past several years working in pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI. His public warning centered on what he believes is an increasingly dangerous race toward more powerful, potentially self-improving artificial intelligence systems. Other researchers inside the industry have publicly echoed some of those concerns. 

That made me stop.

Not because I suddenly believe artificial intelligence is going to wake up tomorrow and take over the world.

It made me stop because when people who actually help build these systems are raising serious questions about how quickly the technology is advancing, the rest of us should at least be willing to listen.

And let me tell you, listening does not mean panicking.

It means governing.