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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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Local 10 and 11 year old Girl Scouts recommend BrainWise to their School Board

The bright spot at the last Board meeting of the Jefferson County School Board was the presentation by a local Girl Scout Troop that asked the Jeffco School Board to teach the BrainWise program in all of its schools. Here...

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