FREE DRESSES & ACCESSORIES Prom season is a costly time for everyone. St. Andrew United Methodist Church has been helping teen girls with these expenses for the last seven years. Their Prom Closet provides dresses and accessories at no charge to girls who might not otherwise be able to swing…
Building a Home Gym is a Snap with Busybody and Fitness HQ Sure, home gyms are great for avoiding driving to a club and paying membership fees. But there’s another motivation behind the transformation of basements, garages, and spare bedrooms into home fitness centers: They’ve become a way to gather…
TAYLOR HOOTON FOUNDATION The use of Appearance and Performance Enhancing Drugs (APEDs) is a tremendous problem among teens today. Studies show that over 1.5 million teens admit to using anabolic steroids. The median age for first time use is 15. The family of Taylor Hooton, a promising teen baseball…
New Friends New Life (NFNL) was born in 1998 when a women’s church group helped a woman who was an exotic dancer and was looking for a way to get out of that life. Over fifteen years later this organization now provides access to education, job training, interim financial assistance,…
March is National “Save Your Vision” Month Vision plays an important role in daily life. Every waking minute, the eyes are working hard to view and process information. In fact, according to the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) annual American Eye-Q® survey, 40 percent of Americans worry about losing their eyesight…
Rainbow Days, Inc. (RDI) was founded in 1982 as a support group for young children of alcoholics. The need for this type of service was so great that RDI soon began to open these groups in schools, shelters and other community locations. Since then, they have broadened their assistance to…
College Prep 101: All You Need To Know To Get Them Ready For Freshman Year For many high school students and their parents, planning for college can be the 1000-pound elephant in the room, or as the Plano Senior High School website (http://k-12.pisd.edu/schools/PSHS/COUNSEL/Coladm.htm) notes, “the college admissions process can be…
SAT’s High School Timeline FRESHMAN Create a high school plan. Make sure you know what high school courses are required by colleges and that you´re taking the right classes starting this year. Get to know the levels of courses offered by your school. Take challenging classes You should take at least five…
When it comes to planning for college, most students and their parents are comfortable working with a school guidance counselor. There are occasions, however, when obtaining the services of an independent professional may be necessary. What’s the difference? The independent counselor may have a different background than a school counselor….