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Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Adds BrainWise to Colorado Program

RYLA Plus is a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program for potential future leaders with physical disabilities, or other similar challenges.  Targeted for high school or college students ages 16-20, this is the third year that the Rotary Club of Denver...

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BrainWise to be taught to girls in Ladakh, India

  [caption id="attachment_711" align="alignright" width="150"] Girls in Lakakh, Kashmir[/caption] [caption id="attachment_710" align="alignright" width="135"] Street Scene, Lakakh[/caption] Serendipitous connections involving Rotary, and Indian educator, and a Tibetan Buddhist nun have resulted in BrainWise being taught in five schools for girls in...

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BrainWise History of Use with FASD Children and Caregivers in Alaska

Matt Sena, M.S. , BrainWise master instructor, trainer and Board member, compiled a summary of his ten years of work using BrainWise with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) children and caregivers.   Matt worked with the aboriginal peoples of Alaska, and...

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HOPE Online Academy Compiling Data

Dr. Susan McAlonan, HOPE Academy’s Director of Student Services, was the catalyst behind arranging a BrainWise training for 130 faculty and staff members at the school in November, 2014.  Dr. McAlonan’s experience with BrainWise came from her previous job as...

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BrainWise, Special Needs Students and Conflict Resolution

BrainWise board member Dan Himelspach, JD, co-founder of  Dispute Management, Inc. and an expert litigator and mediator,  saw a grant announcement from the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), in partnership with the JAMS Foundation, to fund “unique and innovative” projects...

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