EDC Update Fall 2010

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  • A partnership between Carnegie Hall and EDC is helping music students develop a solid foundation.

  • Teaching low-income students about sustainable or green technologies can also help them discover a future career path in an emerging field.

  • As people live longer, more older adults and families need support to cope with depression, end-of-life care, and other challenges of aging.

  • In Vietnam, peer support groups are helping to combat the country’s heroin problem and HIV/AIDS epidemic.

  • Teens in Metrowest Boston are using social media tools such as Facebook to reduce underage drinking.

  • “We don’t want kids to be quiet as they listen to stories,” says EDC’s Cindy Hoisington as she describes how to build literacy among young readers.

  • With support from EDC’s Garissa Youth Project, hundreds of young people in Kenya prepare to enter the workforce.

  • An interactive radio program in Zanzibar is part of a plan to improve preschools across the nation.

  • Ongoing conflict in the region caused many South Sudanese adults to miss out a formal education as children. An interactive radio instruction is now bringing learning to life for them.

  • Amy Aparicio Clark visited Brawley, California, to get feedback on El sexo puede esperar (Saving Sex for Later), a program that promotes positive parenting practices among families with young adolescents.