By Christy Barritt Homeless Find Innovative Shelters in Vancouver A Vancouver charity found a unique way to help the area’s homeless: they converted city benches into pop-up shelters. RainCity Housing specializes in accommodation and support services for homeless people in Vancouver. They created park benches that provide places for people to wait for a […]
By Christy Barritt Parents Value Grades over Kindness A new study by a researcher at Harvard has found that parents value grades and athletic success more than showing kindness. Rick Weissbourd and his colleagues surveyed 10,000 children from across the country and asked them to rank various values in importance. Eighty percent of the […]
By Christy Barritt Americans Get Enough Sleep The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their annual Time Use Survey in June, and their results on the sleep habits of Americans surprised many. According to the survey, Americans aged 15 and up on average sleep a total of 8 hours and 45 minutes daily. The number […]
By Christy Barritt Foster Mother Receives Financial Gift A foster mother living in California received a tremendous gift for her life’s work. Alena Strickland of Downey has fostered more than 200 children, many of them with mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. She started fostering when her infant daughter was hospitalized more than 27 years […]
By Christy Barritt Stranger Raises $35K for Exonerated Prisoner When a Brooklyn man was exonerated after serving nearly 25 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, a stranger felt a call to action. Alex Sutaru heard the story of Jonathan Fleming, who’d been freed from prison after a key piece of evidence […]
