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11:35

From Crisis to Empowerment in the LGBTQ+ Community and Beyond

This Comcast Newsmakers segment showcases Denver based non-profit, Envision: You, that is working hard to change the statistics around mental health issues and substance abuse disorders among the LGBTQ+ community.

LGBTQ+ people suffer mental health issues at a rate three times higher than their cis, straight counterparts and experience much higher rates of substance abuse disorders as well. Currently, 60% of queer folks have a less than ideal experience when they go into a health care setting due to the lack of affirming resources available to them.

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20:31

School to Prison Pipeline

This segment explores the impact of zero-tolerance policies in schools. We hear from TX State Representative Gene Wu & an Assistant Public Defender specializing in Juvenile policy. This showcases the stories of students & staff from 8 Million Stories. HD

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4:30

Learning Link

The Learning Link provides every Houston Independent School District (HISD) student with a virtual library account. For More Information, please visit Houston Public Library

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4:30

Proud of Our Differences

Crossroads provides the solution to parents of students with learning differences. Crossroads allows K-12 students the opportunity to grow academically and personally, while developing as they reach for the sky, fail; take another shot at it, and succeed. For More Information, please visit Crossroads School, Inc.

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4:30

Here for the Long Haul

For 36 years, Rebuilding Together Houston has provided no-cost home repair to neighbors in need: working families, the elderly, veterans and people with disabilities. This is our mission, pre- and post-Harvey. For more information, please visit Rebuilding Together Houston

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4:29

Ready to Lead and Highly Successful

Veterans are looking for careers not jobs, communicating and setting expectations about how the civilian sector works is the first step. Effective networking is the ultimate key to success. Interested in finding out how you can help? Visit Lone Star Veterans Association

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4:30

Career and Education Day 2018

THE HOUSTON HISPANIC FORUM IS A 501 (C) (3) NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON EMPOWERING AND INSPIRING THE SUCCESS OF THE LARGE AND FAST-GROWING HISPANIC COMMUNITY IN THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA, THEREBY STRENGTHENING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. For More Information, please visit Houston Hispanic Forum

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4:30

Shipley Do-nut Dash

The mission of Kids Meals is to end childhood hunger by delivering free healthy meals to the doorsteps of Houston’s hungriest preschool-aged children and through collaboration provide their families with resources to help end the cycle of poverty. Kids’ Meals is a first-responder to children ages five-years old and under facing debilitating hunger due to extreme poverty. Every weekday, year-round, from 9 a.m. to noon, volunteers prepare thousands of healthy lunches consisting of a sandwich, nutritious snack and 100% juice or milk. They have six vans that deliver meals M-F to children enrolled in our program. To Find out More, please visit Kids Meals

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4:30

Discovery Green Conservancy

Discovery Green’s spring season kicks off March 1 with a Bayou City Music Series concert at the park. Season highlights include the Roller Rink (open 3/2 through 3/25), the return of the Canned Acoustica concert series, Screen on the Green, Toddler Tuesdays and much more. to Find out about more events, please visit Discovery Green

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4:30

Purple Songs Can Fly

Purple Songs Can Fly is a unique program that provides a musical outlet for the many children being treated for cancer and blood disorders at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers. In this program, which is the first of its kind, the children and their siblings work with founder, Anita Kruse, and other professional singer/songwriters in an in-hospital recording studio to write, record, and burn songs to disc within short sessions. For More Information, please visit Purple Songs Can Fly

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4:30

Updates on the New CRR Building

Career and Recovery Resources, Inc. is a nonprofit multi-service United Way of Greater Houston agency established in 1945 by B’nai B’rith as the Jewish Vocational Guidance Services. Our mission is to help people identify and overcome barriers to employment. Our vision is to be the premier agency providing services for people with barriers. The agency empowers job seekers with job readiness training, career guidance, job placement assistance, job retention counseling, and employment-related supportive services. Enrichment classes include GED exam preparation, computer classes, and both adult basic education and computer classes in American Sign Language for persons who are deaf or hearing-impaired. Teens and older youth are served with career exploration workshops. We also provide adult outpatient substance abuse treatment and aftercare, and HIV/STD testing and risk reduction counseling. To Donate or Find out More Information, please visit Career and Recovery

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4:30

Sanchez Charter School - Open Enrollement!

Sanchez Charter School has one of the most successful programs for educating at-risk Latino middle school and high school students. At Sanchez, students overcome academic and social barriers through small classes, rigorous instruction, one-on-one attention, a personalized learning environment and an array of wraparound services for themselves and their families. To Find Out More, please visit us online

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4:30

Easter Seals of Greater Houston

Nationally, Easter Seals is the leading non-profit provider of services for individuals with autism, developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, other special needs, and disabled veterans. For about 70 years, Easter Seals Greater Houston has been offering help, hope and answers to people of all ages with disabilities and their families. Through therapy, training, education and support services, Easter Seals creates life-changing solutions so that people with disabilities can live, learn, work and play in our community. For More Information, please visit Easter Seals Houston

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4:30

Women World Wide Conference

Big Sister Little Sister is a mentoring program that promotes life skills, self-esteem, confidence, trust, and social appropriateness. We strive to make a positive and lasting impact in schools, college campuses and in communities globally in the lives of women of all ages. For More Information, please visit BSLS

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4:30

Celebrating 31 Years!

The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to finding the cures for Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis, and to improving the quality of life of children and adults affected by these diseases. It was founded in 1967 by Irwin M. and Suzanne Rosenthal, William D. and Shelby Modell, and Henry D. Janowitz, M.D. Beyond research, the Foundation is collaborating with healthcare providers to improve IBD quality of care, as well as educating, supporting, and empowering patients and their caregivers through patient-centric education and advocacy programs. To find Out More Information, please visit http://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/about/

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