Justice Robin Davis has been appointed by the Supreme Court to coordinate judicial truancy programs in West Virginia. Justice Davis will hold 14 regional meetings throughout the state to discuss the program. Parents, teachers, and community members are urged to attend. Teens!! Truancy cases, drop outs, and push outs are all issues you deal with. [read more]
Imagine a world in which every inhabitant is in their own secluded little pod. Not really knowing what is going on with the rest of the world. The only way that people can have information inside their pods is by cables that runs through each of the pods and plugs them into the events that [read more]
Here is a video of Bad Karma practicing at the Teen DAWG Center. The song you hear in the snippets is a song Shamell Webb wrote called Desecrated Memories. If you are interested in supporting Teen DAWG and all our work with youth please donateonline or by sending a check to DAWG [read more]
Teen DAWG has been looking at the push out drop out rates for sometime now, while doing some new research I came across this organization called Youth Rights Media from New Haven Connecticut, that is doing digital storytelling around the drop out and push out rates in their area. The video below will take you [read more]
I’m black. More specifically, I am a black male. I’ve always been interested in issues that affected the black community. I wasn’t raised by a single mother and my father was a part of my household. My mom was the leader of my family and had the attributes of a leader as well. She was [read more]
A Polish woman has filed a lawsuit against an Egyptian hotel after claiming her teenage daughter got pregnant from using the pool. Magdalena Kwiatkowska claims her 13-year-old daughter conceived from a stray sperm floating in the hotel’s mixed-sex pool after she took a dip, the Sun reports. The hotel was not named. The teen returned to [read more]
The West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline launched recently and is ready to help any caller. The phone lines are up and calls are now being accepted. The Quitline, 1-866-WVQUITT, works 24 hours a day for 7 days a week. It aims to educate prescription drug abusers and their families about the problem and services in their [read more]
Dear Friends Please support our Friends in Philly! PSU is a friend of Teen DAWG. WE SUPPORT YOU PSU!! L2A Beth Teen DAWG FWD: Dear PSU Supporter: We need your help! In the coming weeks, the School District of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers will negotiate a new, four-year teacher contract. This is [read more]
The Teen Track went great this year. The teens are becoming more responsible and aware of their actions and how they impact everyone. We did however have some name calling and rumors (It was not just by the teens) but that cant always be avoided when you have that many people together those that were the target of [read more]
I aged out of the system and no longer can get health-care…So I can’t afford to go to the eye doctor which is a really big problem because I have a really bad astigmatism, which basically means I am going blind, and I can’t see 6inches in-front of me without glasses or contacts. Well the dog got a [read more]
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