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Video: Teaching teachers to help kids cope with trauma

In December 2020, Shelby County Schools teachers attended a training to learn how to support their students through traumas. Adverse childhood experiences or ACEs are events or circumstances that create […]

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Architect Mario Walker won first prize in the competition to imagine new uses for the historic Highland Heights United Methodist Church. The contest is part of an effort to save the church from demolition. (Emily Holmes, Heights CDC)
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A rendering of a proposed extension of the Detroit RiverWalk.
Detroit RiverWalk to expand after successful river remediation

After a multimillion-dollar river remediation effort, Detroit's RiverWalk is preparing to begin work on a new extrension on the city's east side.

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NASA is helping a U of M professor bring space sciences to Memphis-area K-12 classrooms
Manistique Community Treehouse organizer is a force of, and for, nature

COVID-19 setbacks and losses have not been able to diminish the optimism of neighborhood innovator Tammy Black. The Jefferson Chalmers resident is drawing on the strength of her community to sustain plans for the construction of a treehouse community center and advocate for horticultural therapy. 

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