Do you or your children have student loan trouble?

Not only are our youth in trouble as it pertains to violence in our neighorshoods, ill health, suicide, and illiteracy. Those who do have a desire to get an education, as we have encouraged, are in danger of long-term financial failure due to the student loan death trap. Low to middle income families with youngsters even attempting to make a better life for themselves are finding it more and more difficult to send their children to college. All indications point to the death trap in which our youth are ensnared.

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Stop the Violence Before It Starts

Save Our Children

Teens and Suicide A World-Wide Problem!

As dropout rate rises, so does the number of teenagers and young adults, age 15-25, who commit suicide. African Americans are again the highest rate in the statistics. It is usually the result of depression, low self-esteem, rejection, and the poor living conditions under which some are subject.

Some teens, because of their biochemical makeup or life experiences, are at greater risk for suicide. Risk factors for suicide include:

· Previous suicide attempts - Teens that have attempted suicide in the past are much more likely than other teens to attempt suicide again in the future. Approximately a third of teen suicide victims have made a previous suicide attempt.6

· Depression and/or alcohol or substance abuse - Over 90% of teen suicide victims have a mental disorder, such as depression, and/or a history of alcohol or drug abuse.

· Family history of mental disorders, substance abuse, or suicide - Teens who kill themselves have often had a close family member who attempted or committed suicide. Many of the mental illnesses, such as depression, that contribute to suicide risk appear to have a genetic component. The information above comes directly from

Reprinted from www.safeyouth.org

The signs range from any of these extremes:

1. irritability, moodswings, indifference, and depression
2. agressive, destructive, or defiant behavior
3. withdrawal from family and friends
4. loss of interest in activities they once enjoyed
5. feelings of worthlessness, rejection, abandoment, or guilt
6. severe lack of appetite
7. inability to sleep or lack of energy and sleeping all day
8. neglect of personal appearance and personal hygiene
9. anxiety or panic
10. having difficulty concentrating and poor school performance

Teen suicide is a desparate cry for help when they feel hopeless and helpless. Parents, teachers, social workers, governmental agencies, and religious groups all over the world are concerned.

Do you agree that our youth are in trouble? This is our chance to help.

Eliyannah A. Yisrael, founder of Remaining Humble Productions, is a 23 year old graduate student studying Film Directing at Loyola Marymount University in Las Angeles California. She arrived home for the summer in time to hear the horrifying news about 28 high schools killed in school or on Chicago Transit Authority in route to or from school. Troubled by the news, she decided to do her part to help. Her goal is to teach film to innercity youth at-risk while also pursuing a career in directing.

Here is the concept. Eliayannah A. Yisrael, and her assistants, loving family and friends, are asking that 20 businesses to purchase 10 tickets to be given away to the young people that need it most. Fortunately, you don’t have to live in the Chicagoland area in order to support. Information is also posted on the business directory page on this site.

What do you get out of the deal?

1. A three month post on our website.
2. An old fashioned 5×7 ad in the conference adbook.
3. The honor of investing in the success of 10 young African
American youngsters.
4. Not to mention potiential peace in our neighborhoods.

Tickets are available online at both
humbleyouthsummit.eventbrite.com

or

humbleadultsummit.eventbrite.com

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“The winds of life blows on all of us, nobody escapes its tumult. What makes one different it how the trials, tribulations, and challenges are handled.”

…..Information to Encourage, to Uplift, and to Cleanse…..

There is stress relief and power in faith
We cannot change our past and we cannot change the inevitable, the only thing we can do as we strive to meet our daily needs and desires is to use the one thing that we have that is more powerful than breath. That one thing is faith! It is impossible to please God without it (Hebrews 11: 6).

God is good and worthy to be praiseed! Praise Him through all your circumstances, then certainly,”weeping won’t last forever, rest assured that “joy will come in the morning.”

Relax, Rejuvenate, Refresh

*Pray without ceasing… 1 Thessalonians 5:17

*Put on the garment of praise…Isaiah 61:3

*Then offer the Sacrifice of praise…Hebrew 13:5

Psalms are prophetic but at the same time they can make you feel better and can get you through a tough time.

Try Psalms 143 one of my favorites.Also try these stress relievers: (Continue Reading …)

Let’s Save Our Children
Stop the Violence
Help Develp Young Entrepreneurs
Teachig Young Adults How to Make Money & Spend It
The Black Belt: Bringing it Back Christ-like

My awesome 23 year old daughter is making me proud. She is organizing a youth conference for young people in our area. She is hosting a youth conference next month in the Chicago area, organizing others to teach young people in our area. If you live near us, this message is for you. I am her assistant this time, and proud of it. She was just telling me what else she needs and we were thinking about how to get it done. I thought I would blast this email out to the entrepreneurs group, you guys, you I just joined to see who may live in the area and who could help.

This is what she needs:

1. Speakers for the following workshops ( you are welcome to also push your business & sales)

a. Online Business Aug 8, 6:00p - 7:15 p

b. How to be a successful entrepreneur, Aug 8, 6p - 7:15p

c. Absitnence - teens age 12-17, Aug 6, 6p - 7:15p

d. Generational Wealth Aug 8-10 7:30p — 9:30p

2. Vendors Aug 8-10 from 6:00-10:00 p.m $100 per night or $250 all three nights

3. Food Vendor Aug 5-10 6:00 - 10:00p.m. $125 per night or $ $325 all three nights.

If you are interested and live in the Chicagoland area, call my daughter, Eliyannah A. Yisrael at 708-250-6532 or just reply to this email blast.

May God bless you and keep you and give you peace on this glorious day. It is beautiful in Chicago today! I love His glorious creation!

The entire nation has a problem! Cities across the nation are or have already created a Drop Out Prevention & Recovery Department.

Our children are not being prepared for college or the world of work. Increasingly they are being promoted to high school with no real study skills. In many cases they lack reading proficiency as well. Further, too many of our children are not competent in math computation and critical thinking. Consequently, young people who enter high school ill prepared are at-risk of being a part of the growing drop out statistics. Obviously, the problem does not begin at the high school level. In many cases, there is a direct relationship between grade retention and dropping out of school. Increasingly, there are children who graduate elementary school yet never report to high school. To make matters worse, most of these children are never tracked.

Are you convinced yet!

According to the statistics an increasingly growing total of 12,871 young people dropped out of school in 2005 before earning a high school diploma. These statistics are for the state of Illinois. What state do you live in? What are your drop out statistices?

Given this alarming phenomenon, how many of the large number of drop outs do you think are causing havoc in our streets? How many do you think are making our communities unsafe for our children to play? In view of these growing numbers, how many of these drop outs are causing our senior citizens to feel unsafe and insecure in their own homes?

There is more!
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I suggest we keep a close watch on events in this country which occur in the near future. How many Americans have kept themselves abreast on the June 28th Supreme Court ruling. It’s been two weeks now, and little has been said. I am not at all discouraged by the minor community response this ruling created amongst not only the African American Community, but others who worked for civil rights as well. The civil rights movement was fought by many nationalities. During the time there were White’s coming out of the woodwork, speaking out and marching for civil rights. Many believed that people are people and the dehumanization of any group is wrong. Others lifted their voices for civil rights. Civil rights did not merely benefit African Americans, it benefited women, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asian, and all other minority groups living in America.