Minn.’s Prairie Island Indian Community celebrates steps toward a green future
For years, the Prairie Island Indian Community in St. Paul, Minnesota has voiced its concern about the proximity of a nuclear waste storage facility near its reservation. Now, community leaders are seeing the almost-completed project — a 5.4-megawatt field of solar panels and a $7.5M boost in annual compensation from Xcel Energy — as a path toward "energy sovereignty." The solar field is expected to reduce Prairie Island members' energy costs and will be up and running next year. Sahan Journal has more →
Lessons on supporting Latina teens with suicide prevention
Now in its 15th year, Comunilife, Inc. founder, president and CEO Rosa M. Gil spoke with Epicenter-NYC about her organization's award-winning initiative "Life is Precious," a suicide prevention program for Latina teens — a demographic that attempts suicide more often than any other youth group. Gil began developing the program 18 years ago while working at an outpatient mental health clinic in the South Bronx. She says no evidence-based practices existed for suicide prevention among Latina adolescents at the time.
📱 Plus: Black Voice News cites research that shows spending more than three hours on social media every day doubles the risk of depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents, especially among girls who are more likely to experience psychological harms like eating disorders and low self-esteem. Learn how you can help address the crisis here →More: The kids are not doing alright, but we can help them get there (URL Media)
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Money stress may be dominating women's lives but it doesn't have to
On average women live longer than men, but they also earn less, stress more and have less money for retirement. (As we also know, the wealth gap is even wider for BIPOC women — not to mention the sexism that all women experience at home and in the workplace.) So what's one way of building wealth and financial independence? Investing. "Because women identify as savers, not investors, they don’t take enough risk. And when you don’t take enough risk, you don’t have the opportunity to earn," says Nancy Tangler, the author of “The Women’s Guide to Successful Investing.”
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Dr. Rosa M. Gil is the founder, president, and CEO of Comunilife, Inc., a health and human services agency with offices around New York City, including nearby counties. Founded in 1989, the organization provides affordable and supportive housing to vulnerable communities and is known for its groundbreaking program "Life is Precious"