Landon Shultz

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  Landon commented on the petition | about 1 year ago

  Make Girl Scout Cookies Rainforest-Safe

  Girl Scouts should be working to correct this kind of clearcutting, not supporting it.

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  Landon signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Make Girl Scout Cookies Rainforest-Safe
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  Landon commented on the article | over 3 years ago

  Domestic Poverty Controversies: Who is Poor and How We Treat Them

  Here in Austin, TX, we are implementing a program we call the Martin Luther King Youth Empowerment Services (MLK YES) Project.  MLK YES is a collaborative project of churches, service agencies, and the Austin Police Department.  APD, under Chief Art Acevedo, is determined to establish a new national standard for healthy and productive police-community relationships.
  
  MLK YES targets young persons 18-25, and aims to bring this population into contact with existing social service providers by first creating safe and attractive "socialization" spaces where young people can congregate for fun and fellowship.  Though churches are involved, we are interested in non-church settings.  Though we are open to young persons of all conditions, one of our primary goals is to help young persons who are in or on the edge of poverty to become meaningfully engaged with society.
  The socialization spaces are an end in themselves, because young people need safe places to congregate, but also are a means to get young people in contact with existing service providers in our community, who have a lot to offer young people, but are not trusted by the population they need to serve, and therefore need places to build relationships.