Giving Kids a Level Playing Field for Better Choices | Comcast Newsmakers

Giving Kids a Level Playing Field for Better Choices - 5:09

Joyce D. Ellis

Posted Mar 05, 2018

Children are given the opportunity to make good choices at the Lemoyne Community Center in Washington, PA, according to Executive Director Joyce D. Ellis, who began transforming the lives of children by transforming an old building to offer programs and services to help. Sheila Hyland hosts from the Chatham University Campus in Pittsburgh. lemoynecommunitycenter.org

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