because it is an expression of myself, i am just painting on canvas. but i think if we can teach them that think of their work in their life as a place to express themselves and then dream of what they see themselves becoming, having that strategic miss that makes you think more long term rather than short term. what athlete are told to picture making the shots before they take the shot? and i think that the same thing is true for the rest of us. we have to picture what our goal is, is looking like and not just pick an arbitrary goal. but what do we want our life to look like? and then create a plan to get there and we can help kids do better. but it's in their hands. it's in their hands, that's a lesson every kid should learn and they should have chapter responsibility. i can make sure that i never live in poverty. and my kids never live in poverty. if i do the right thing. i

hello my name is wendy 18 years old. i go to cabra high school, and i am a senior this year. growing up, there was 8 of a still live together. there is a 3 bedroom house. there was a lot of trouble. when the economy hit and everything, my parents, they both had lost their job. it was kind of hard for us to even like have food, all my life even now i'm still on free and reduced lunch. so now we have free reduced lunch. my little brother has free and reduced lunch and there was, ah, my sophomore year, i was 15. i was on a journey with rtp and coming back, feeling nauseous. from there, i started thing that i will feeling different. like you're either believe me or

you're pregnant and i was like, i don't think i'm bullying big like i eat all the time because i like well i watch for pregnancy tests and i was like what i just looked at or and so why the pregnancy tests and they came out positive been just kind of cried. so my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kid. she said, you're going to be fine. we're going to get through this. no matter what happens in what am i going to do? how am i going to finish school? how am i going to do any of this at all? mm. terrified out of my mind. mm. it turns out that in the u. s. right now, an awful lot of children are being born to young parents and parents who are not married to each other. that is about 50 percent of the birth amongst the youngest

generation. in other words, about half of the birth in the youngest generation are babies born outside of marriage to typically quite young parents. we have over the years. why doing careful with kids who are single parents, families, generally education and rob themselves and was able to and then they also had then kids who come from mary couple i more of our kids were with their married parents and lived for the child and they're very parents that also can make a huge difference, they'll do better in school, will be more likely will the college and even though family composition has changed dramatically over the last 3 or 4 decades and way more families waiting

a riverboat. i think americans are going to figure this out. single parents alone have as high stress levels. have stigma then becomes against them because they're single parents, me, teenagers. we have these adult hormones, but we feel like we don't. but we're, we're very malleable and we're still children in a way. our emotions go up and down. and so what happens is, so many kids are making these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups. they're making a lot of decisions around relationships and who their phone with and the intimacy with those people. and this kind of like these top names like what really hinders a lot of kids in poverty. i never thought i would ever simply because i was, i still am a straight a student. i do so much charity work so much community service. org. everyone. i school is like, wendy, isn't she? the smart one is a, she's a good one from her family. isn't she the church girl?

i never thought that that happened. you don't think from 19. is going to pop out 9 months later. you just think what happened one here. keep going with live. love going to happen me and know when you see the picture, blue, your whole world just turn upside down i when we're talking about the idea of participating in risky behavior, whether we're talking about having sex, doing drugs, drinking, watching pornography, whatever it is, getting involved in social media and becoming really addicted to whatever device it is that you're using, or talking about any of those risky behaviors. i think it's important to consider the outcomes of those things. it's important to consider that we're not living for

just this no way to have a child, you know, don't, don't fall into the teen pregnancy element. really think about the cost that it takes to be a parent, the cost and time, the cost and finances. and i would encourage you to wait until you're married before you have kid. wait until, you know you've got that 2nd parent. that 2nd income that can help you raise that child. what kills me is when i see a kid with all the academic rocking, you know, they get these all lazy. finally, they finally break this last feeling where they put all the hard work in their academics. but then they get pregnant with their, with their high school. we literally just take 3 step back and i think it's because there's this huge emotional intelligence where we just don't talk about like relationships and the strategy around what you do as an emotional being ah, i'm always been a daddy's girl. i would go to him for everything. when i got pregnant,

he didn't belong. he had different views and i did. when i told him i was going to keep matthew. he said, you're going to keep them. well. i'm not going to keep you like he suddenly completely. i had matthew in april of 2016. i called him a month later to see how he was doing the catch up to see if he wanted to see my son. he called me, he's like, i still can't believe you decided to keep him. you could have had a future. now you're not going to have anything. and it's been still 3 years. and i haven't heard from him once. i've heard it from people. one of my teachers actually that it when i wasn't there and everyone from the class told me, she said if wendy was my daughter, i would take the baby away from her and raise it myself so that she teacher. but

now she's not going to amount to anything. and hearing it from my dad now, him saying, you're not getting anything. you're not going to have a future anymore. because i decided to keep my son. it broke me in a we, as a society have lived we've been, we've been dishonest because what we have said to you is that you can be, have any way that you choose, you can make any decision or choice that you want to make. whatever you feel this this day, you can make those kinds of decisions and we will do the best that we can to alleviate the car. but the fact is, we cannot alleviate the constantly, it is true that you make your own decisions. you can choose any of the path that you want to choose, that we're being dishonest to you and we say we can help you avoid. there are consequences for the choices that you may,

having sex outside of marriage is not going to fill the void that you're trying to do. it only creates more and more of a vast, open wound. deep within you because you are opening yourself in the most vulnerable way to another human being who is in no way committed to you and who, whose actions are really out of selfishness likely. and a desire to meet a need that day. the day i had them, i started getting ready. i started getting pain and then by the time i got there, they told me was too late for me, david. guess i just balling crying. my i was like, i don't know what to do. i've never done this and whenever he got there, i was scared the 1st time i change this life, right? like i can change the diaper. she listened like what do you catches diaper like?

i can't do this. i am 16. i can do this. i cannot support for him. i cannot do school work and raise a child. i'm staring at this precious little boy smile at me and i'm thinking i kept at all. the only thing going through my head, it was, i cannot get in. if you find yourself pregnant. at 15, there is no easy option for you. you can choose to have an abortion, and that is not an easy option. it leaves damage for the rest of your life for you and for your family. and having a child at 15 leads to all kinds of issues because now you're not just a typical high school kid. you're responsible for another human being. you're going to have to find a way to bring in can you're going to have to tend to a sick baby in the middle of the night when you have homework and you have to get

it personally and go to class yourself. and then your other option would be to place your baby for adoption, which is the most difficult decision i've ever seen. a young person, it is a wonderful choice, and it is often the best choice for that child, but it is heart wrenching and extremely difficult. so once you find yourself in an unplanned pregnancy, we can't take away those consequences and you now have very difficult decisions to ah, so i have my little brother use mine. i have my son about to be 2 and april. i wake up at 6 in the morning. around 7. i will wake up, my little brother, and not around 720. i will get ready. i'll drop them off at my sisters at 730. take my little brother. score 730. i get to school and i'm racing. i'm running, rushing to get there. i get out of school at 130 and i was going to work at 2. i get off the school i. this is how i play with matthew for the 30 minutes that i

have and then i go to work and whenever i get my 30 minute lunch break, so the same thing. go to my sister's house and spend time with them and go back. and then i get off work around 9. i are going to put them both to sleep after i put them please, i will start working on my homework around 1030 and i usually fall asleep at about one or 2. i next either financial survival, no money, there's a girl. i want to be the central bank support for the problem. i know they stopped me an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country threaten to wipe out an american we do everything in our part a project in today. escaping climate change poses the same threat. right now,

alaska has seen some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world. we lost about 35 feet, 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring it is. and that means the river is 35 pounds, then learning was year before i think we're part of america. there's for me or america for me. the news. ah, so what i would say to a 15 year old is i apologize that we had

convinced me that you are lazy, that you are tied to that you are incapable that you are because i don't lose any of that said the abilene abilene, that greatness is on, i believe that you bring value into other people's lives and you'll bring value into the lot and the child, if you choose that it's not going to be and we have failed. and it is now our job to come alongside of and supported to enable you to make better choices, don't. ah, my mama watch, matthew, the 1st here that i had. and i would always tell there, thank you mom, i love you. i appreciate you. and he will say back was all okay me. she chose her love differently to show her love by watching him taking care of me. making sure i had my head. ah,

she told me for the 1st time. i know i never tell you that often, but i am so proud of you. to have a baby you are working, you're going to fall. not only that you're getting scholarship, she told me that i was a fighter. and if you're a strong woman fighter for me to get a message from her saying, i'm proud of you and everything that you're complicating and everything that you're doing for me was the best present i can ever get. this is what i have been working for years is to get a simple, i'm proud of me . there is a group of villagers working the field by river when someone in the group noticed the baby floating downstream. ah, one of the men rushed into the y,

rescued the baby and brought it to shore. before he could recover, a number of babies were found floating downstream. before long, there was a steady flow of babies floating down the river and the whole village was involved in the rescue efforts. pulling babies out of the water and making sure they were made safe. but not all of them could be. i summer pulled under by the raging river other slipped through the villagers hands while others fell back into the water. the villagers tried to save them. the villagers were saving as many babies as they could before along the beacon software. from all their efforts frustrated controversy arrested, which one could argue that every possible handler needed downstream to help rescue be they didn't have everyone's help,

it would lose too many downstream. the other group argue that every possible hand was needed upstream. they could find out how the babies were getting into the water table, all of them and eliminate the need for the costly and time consuming effort downstream. we find out how these babies are falling into the river. in the 1st place. we can stop and no more babies will drown figure upstream. we can eliminate the cause of the problem. me, but is too risky. not fail or take too long? lose too many live me. i to the once and future children to fix the problem upstream. phase one else falling into the liver.

i drink from a different water fountain. you want to find him a call it till i was 12 year though. okay. so what's different about the water coming out of that found me person. so the other mountain that i wasn't supposed to me, i grew up my real life most buried that keep people from completely experiencing all that life offer placed around in children. you know, there are 2 ways to address poverty. one is to try to prevent it from ever occurring in the 1st place. and the 2nd is, if it does occur to ameliorate, provide people with assistance with child care with housing. so it has to be

have to help those who need now. and you have to help those might be needed in future. and in order to, to pose, you have to now work downstream circumstances that got us where we are unique. and so our approach, every person and every family in poverty, needs to be as unique as that person and that family. and that's difficult to do, and it's a little overwhelming to think about. but people are different. it's interesting looking back historically on what we've done to address poverty in the united states. it's mostly been to provide people with assistance. so various kinds and those things are needed. i think we should not lead people destitute and without such assistance. but there's not a lot of evidence, so things are going to move people out of poverty except temporarily. i don't think

americans are in favor of simply redistributing income. what they want is to provide everyone an opportunity to get ahead on their own. we believe in equality of opportunities, not equality of results. i went to a conference when the conference was an opportunity conference where we invited 74 families from our community in hopes to just allow a pathway to cycle out of poverty. majority of the people in this conference were generational poverty. so they came in and they heard from dr. donna, be goal a her story and were encouraged, it was 6 hour program and she would say, how many of you know what it is to have. just going to notice how many of you know what it is did receive an eviction notice. and before long arms were coming up and she allowed them to see that if i can do it, you can to, we all have hope with and sometimes it just gets buried. so i had the opportunity

visibly see hope rise to the surface of heaven for people. and that's not something that you can contain. we knew you can't contain hope. i left this place with hope and i'm going to tell her everybody about it. i want them to know what i know and i'm going to succeed because people came in the room that didn't know me. and i mattered. i was important. i. i am part right. i'm no longer in the isolation where i'm irrelevant or i have to walk around and lead with the label shane, little by little. the whole starts to take that label off. and when people come into place, you're able to replace that label with words. the word, instead of allowing them person to feel me,

we all are the same when it comes to what our basic needs are and what our basic desires are. and i think if we really think about what we have in common with one another, that's where we can start to create a basis of understanding a person saying, i'm not going to judge you. i'm not going to criticize you. i'm not going to do value your lived experience because it's different than mine. you say to the other human being, what ever dream you've ever had. it's still on. oh i when i was growing, it felt like there were a few that were completely off. i and there a few kids that were trying really hard to make good choices and really had their focus where it needed to be that most of us were somewhere in this gray area where

we're trying to get our toes as close to the line as we can without completely stepping over, but we weren't really convicted either way and we're just all kind of trying to get 9, get them. what i see now is that there are more kids off the rail. there are very few kids in the gray area that there are a lot of young people who are committed to are strong, who are folk who want to make good and who are making and having an impact on the people around. that is my hope for the next generation in awe. and that hope comes from the stories that hope comes from us. saying to our scholars, you can do this. we're going to stand by you. we're going to help you get through

this. they have the power to turn the ship right. and it happened by making one good decision after the new one of the bigger you realize it is unfortunate. 24, our compound interest of things that like we're going to take you to places that you can't even understand what you do today, is going to play more compound interest. but anything else you're playing a game that's bigger than yourself. you're playing a game for yourself, for your family's name, for your kids that don't even exist yet. and for your granted who are going to benefit off of the hardware. ah, not all poverty is preventable, but we know certainly that based on research and the research that we're using for our program and some of that can be preventable, we want to help and we want to help the community around us. and that's what we're

trying to rally our community around and support a lot of times when i work with people who currently live in the crisis of poverty, not smart enough to get, you know, smart enough to go to college, got to ask for help. you got to ask for help in poverty teacher. you don't ask for help. that's the wrong message. nobody makes it alone. absolutely no one. we have to work together. we have to overlap with other organizations. we have to be community fighting. the key is allowing hope and we can't allow for, we can't communicate hope we can allow worse than television relationship. if we can spark of movement, that not only helps those who are in the river, but also gives them the tool to help their kids and their kids, kids not being the river, that's the movement we want. when we reach out to people across these barriers, poverty barriers, political opinions. we can really find some unique pressures and

people who are different from us and find out that they're not so different after all i use use use . ah

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the i don't know, i mean there are some steps in there who are rescuing the food that they were not scabbing or were rescuing resources that are still good. this is best by march 21st which is in 2 days. all these potatoes, paula daniels, onions, all of these came from waste brown sources. this is great for me because i'm always looking for a way to give things away. dr. because the tax laws, you know, definitely do benefit the wealthier people and our society. so it makes sense for them to throw it out right off rather than give it to somebody who could use it. and then that person is not going to buy it in the,

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