In today’s rundown: A lack of opportunity for DC teens this summer. | A new center for women and children’s nutrition opens in Maryland. | Why one local school is seeing its largest graduating class ever this year. | Five ways hunger is affecting the Latino community.
— “Non profits in Washington, DC are calling it the ‘perfect storm’: Two months where funding for summer classes, a youth jobs program and enrichment activities have been slashed because of the District’s multi-million dollar budget shortfall,” reports WAMU. Beacon House, a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner, is featured in the story.
— A new center for women and children’s nutrition has opened in Montgomery County, according to the Gazette. Located in Westfield Wheaton, The Women, Infants and Children Services Center has replaced two smaller locations in White Flint and Aspen Hill.
— The Gazette also profiles a school in Prince George’s County that had a 97 percent graduation rate this year. Friendly High in Fort Washington celebrated its largest graduating class in its history last week. Raynah Adams, the school’s new principal, implemented initiatives to keep the students academically focused.
— And we’re a little late on this one, but DCentric takes a look at five ways hunger affects the local Latino community.
