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Topic: Children, Youth, Families, and Elders

1.03.2007 Create a Program other than "A Way to Work" located on H St NE. that employs young men and women who have not been able to find work.
12.29.2006 Vocational Training at the District's Oak Hill Detention Facility
5.23.2006 The Distict's FIRST Inter-Ward Mayor's Youth Sports City Championships
5.10.2006 Mandatory Child-Rearing Classes
5.09.2006 Shakespeare In The Park
5.05.2006 Bringing back the idea of curb space plantings
5.05.2006 Evelyn Wood Day and Related Acivities/Events
5.05.2006 Support children who live in shelters
5.05.2006 Build a community of learning centered around the schools through family learning contracts.
5.05.2006 Illegal parking near Monuments (during rush hour) - Summertime solution
5.05.2006 DC Officials Mentor Youth for DC's Future
5.05.2006 Love My Neighbor? How Can I? I Don't Even Know Him. Solution: Printed "Listservs."
5.05.2006 Ask the dropouts.
5.05.2006 Places to Go...People to Meet...Ideas to Share: Where Character Development, Directed Teen Civic and Social Involvement and Civic Journalism Meet
5.05.2006 Stop Giving the Youth Felony Time for Misdemeanor Offenses
5.05.2006 Reducing welfare caseloads, illiteracy, crime, drug addiction, and births to unwed mothers -- with one program
5.05.2006 To provide opportunity for our children, the next generation of DC citizens, we plan to build a Playground Garden at Peabody School.
5.05.2006 Patrolling NightClub Areas & DC Public Schools; Tourism Sprucing up the neighborhoods and Community Centers; and Fixing up the DC Public Schools
5.05.2006 Give DC youth more indoor recreational opportunities by building a Chelsea Piers-like sports complex on the Anacostia Waterfront
5.05.2006 Integrate ex-offenders into DC's social and economic networks by pairing them with cross-class teams of mentors
5.05.2006 ALWAYS THINK BEFORE YOU MOVE: A LIFE AFFIRMING PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
5.04.2006 Encouraging and Rewarding Community Service
5.04.2006 Using videotapes and DVDs to help working parents support their child and his or her education
5.04.2006 Increase the activity of all DC residents
5.04.2006 Renovate every DC High School Field
5.04.2006 Encourage seniors to get out of their homes and remain active by letting them ride METRO for free
5.04.2006 Build Stronger Communities By Strengthening Youth Programs
5.04.2006 DC's crime rate would decline and educational system would benefit from using Boys and Girls Clubs to help youth who are suspended from schools.
5.04.2006 A Truly DC Mentorship Program
5.04.2006 Turn closed schools into community centers
5.04.2006 DC Public Library Events Program
5.03.2006 Public Library Improvement Program
5.03.2006 Human Capital Re-investment
5.03.2006 Annual Throw Back Day
5.03.2006 Enhancing Civic Engagement in Children and Youth: Save Our Park! -- a book for children aged 5 to 8 years.
5.03.2006 Learning to Help One Another in This Harsh World
5.03.2006 Youth Violence
5.03.2006 And A Child Shall Lead Them
5.02.2006 Recreation + Learning Centers
5.02.2006 Increasing Volunteer Base for Senior Organizations (Revised)
5.02.2006 Vocational Schools
5.01.2006 D.C. Debunks the Genetic Theory of Disease and Collects the Wisdom of its Centenarian for the Benefit of the Whole Community
5.01.2006 Increasing DC's Volunteer Base
5.01.2006 A proposal to Enhance the Learning Experience of Students in Poor Performance Secondary Schools in the District of Columbia by Marshall J. Spurlock
5.01.2006 Being able to get from "A" to "B" in DC
4.30.2006 Start a Minimal Cost Knowledge-Share Program: To Enhance Learning, Training and Skills at a Low Cost while Benefiting the DC Public Schools.
4.27.2006 Diversity, Diplomacy & Mediation
4.26.2006 Inadequate Parenting Skills
4.26.2006 Youth magazine generated by highschool groups discussing problems of violence, teen pregnancy and drugs, providing a forum for understanding and solutions.
4.25.2006 Our Kids Need Nature/We've Got It! - Survivor: Anacostia
4.25.2006 Sensitizing Metro travelers to the law by the use of art, creative language, and consistency.
4.25.2006 "Green" DC Public Schools Would Improve Children's Health
4.25.2006 Promoting positive teens and keeping them off the street.
4.24.2006 School-based health clinics for children, families, and adults.
4.24.2006 Bring more families back to DC by offering a $5,000 per child local tax credit.
4.23.2006 Sponsor a National DC Self Government Essay Contest for High School Students
4.23.2006 Train Summer Youth Program Participants to Do Home Safety, Fire Inspections
4.22.2006 child support tracking card
4.21.2006 Parenting "A Village Raises a Child"
4.20.2006 Teach the Importance of RESPECT!
4.20.2006 Improving Reading Skills and Sense of Community through Literacy Education
4.20.2006 Inspiring Student Commitment through City Commitment: Addressing failing student interest and achievement.
4.20.2006 Expanded before and after school services in the public schools
4.20.2006 Make a difference in the drop out rate in school!!!
4.19.2006 It's Time to Break the Taboo and Pay High School Students
4.19.2006 Establish a DC Government "Youth Cabinet" to Promote Youth Issues and Foster Civic Engagement
4.19.2006 DEVELOPER SET ASIDE 1% OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS TO BE USED FOR SPECIFIC EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOR CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
4.19.2006 It's time for a DC State Fair!
4.19.2006 Working Together For The Common Good of All Men
4.18.2006 Mandate Parental Involvement, Make a Difference in DC Public Schools
4.18.2006 Getting kids off the streets and selling drugs.
4.18.2006 Emergency room openness to help patients and family
4.18.2006 College growth fund for low income residents
4.18.2006 Personal Development For Today's Youth. Enstill power, respect and confidence.
4.18.2006 Involve youth in helping others; employing them in this way will also give them a positive way to spend their time.
4.18.2006 The aging of the National Capital Area -- when is a problem not a problem?
4.18.2006 A Simpler Solution - "Improvement Day"
4.17.2006 Parent Education
4.17.2006 Affordable daycare, happier retirement homes
4.15.2006 Add some life to the catacombs called METRO Rail Underground
4.14.2006 Department of Parks and Recreation.
4.14.2006 Agelessness of Informational Access
4.12.2006 Plant a radish-gardening in DC schools is fun, educational and healthy
4.12.2006 Prevent gang activity now before is too late
4.10.2006 Give young people an alternative to high school and college with an expansive technical/trade education system that meshes with an apprenticeship program upon graduation.
4.10.2006 Small dogs are grrrreat companions for senior citizens living in apartment buildings.
4.10.2006 A Simple Solution to Transport the City's Low-Income and Disabled Children and Adults
4.07.2006 "Education is our Business" borrowed from title of oped Post article by Stephen Porter 4/2/06
4.06.2006 Create a Comprehensive Video Database/Catalogue of DC Museums, Galleries, Monuments, Performing Arts, Nightlife, etc. to Help Tourists Spend More Time/Money in the District
4.06.2006 Eradicate Illiteracy- starting with a Children's Library
4.05.2006 Create an Ownership Stake in the DC Public Library
4.05.2006 Create a beatiful city park on the site of the old convention center!
4.05.2006 Turning the "at risk" into community leaders
4.05.2006 Washington's biggest probem is children without proper families.
4.05.2006 Homes & centers for the elderly should be co-located with youth centers and orphanages.
4.04.2006 City-wide School Libraries Project
4.04.2006 RFK Stadium Youth Athletic Complex
4.04.2006 Chocolate Milk solves everything...
4.04.2006 Blended Funding for Services for At Risk Children
4.04.2006 Free Public Preschool
4.04.2006 Make hunger and malnutrition illegal for children and the elderly in the District of Columbia.
4.04.2006 Reaching sexually active Students Early.
4.04.2006 Allow after care housed in DC public school buildings to stay open until at least 6:30pm
4.04.2006 Develop a Youth Empowerment Program
4.03.2006 Let's Stomp Out HIV among DC Youth & Young Adults
4.03.2006 Music and Arts Mentoring Program
4.03.2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue Childrens' Summer Theater
4.01.2006 Assign a mentor family for all unwed mothers who apply for medicaid assistance and welfare.
4.01.2006 Great Legacy For Our Youth Today: What Have YOU Done In Preparation For Tomorrow?
4.01.2006 Neighorhood Schools; Neighborhood Centers
3.31.2006 Linking Teachers, Libraries and Schools With Information Technology
3.31.2006 Stroller, wagon, and bike trailer rentals facilitate more family outings downtown.
3.30.2006 Cut out welfare. It only holds people down. Make welfare something attainable only if you go to occupational school or college.
3.30.2006 Apply Proceeds of St. Elizabeth's Land, Sold as Homeland Security Headquarters, to Construct New Homeless Rehabilitation Dormatories, Emptying DC Parks of Smelly Bums
3.30.2006 DC Should Award a Tax Credit to Parents of Troubled Teenagers
3.30.2006 A Few Playgrounds wouldn't hurt
3.30.2006 Public Libraries - Crumbling Resources That Need Support!
3.30.2006 Paved bike paths on the Mall; more food options on the Mall; more child-oriented activities on the Mall
 

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