The Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) in Kodiak, Alaska, is a tribal organization that provides health and social services to the Koniak region, including the villages of Akhiok, Karluk, Old Harbor, Ouzinkei, Port Lions, and Larsen Bay. The youth and...
Youth Opportunities Unlimited (Y.O.U.) provides school-based programs, community-based workforce programs, and entrepreneurship education that annually serves thousands of teens and young adults. Founded in 1982, Y.O.U. is recognized for long-term positive outcomes that include job placement and retention (>70%), high school...
Blake, Sawyer, Anahi and Montzerrath are BrainWise teen mentors who created lessons for fourth graders that reinforce the Constellation of Support. Their examples used characters from "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Toy Story." The characters were already familiar to the students which...
In May 2018, health insurer Cigna published the results of a survey conducted with 20,000 U.S. adults aged 18 or older. It found that nearly half of all Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone. Forty-seven percent report feeling left...
A newly created BrainWise lesson uses the human hand to represent the physical parts of the brain we teach in Wise Way #1. The hand brain parallels the brain drawing in the curriculum and depicts the relay center/thalamus (blue), the...
