News

  • Recess – Where’s the magic?

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    Urban Initiatives seeks to make recess impactful for every student in our school communities. Our recess program creates genuine value during recess through improved physical activity, social emotional learning opportunities, and healing-centered community building.

    Recess – Where’s the magic?

  • Celebrating Our First Annual Community Cup

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    Urban Initiatives’ (UI) first annual Community Cup was a complete success in celebrating the youth engaged in UI’s programs this year. The Community Cup was a month-long event, celebrating the resilience and strength of our youth throughout this difficult year.

    Celebrating Our First Annual Community Cup

  • Soccer Ball 2021 was a virtual success!

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    Urban Initiatives’ most anticipated event of the year—the 2021 Soccer Ball presented by Allstate—was a great success! Despite the difficulties posed by the pandemic, we were still able to celebrate all of the challenges that we have overcome as a team, our incredible partners, awardees and friends and family who were able to join the…

  • Staying Connected in Summer 2020

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    Although we initially thought that COVID-19 might be resolved in time for Summer Programs, it quickly became clear that the major shifts in programming would extend through the summer and beyond. Our wide range of summer programs adjusted to meet students’ needs as effectively and creatively as possible!

    Staying Connected in Summer 2020

  • Empower Sessions Week #11 — Role Models

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at role models and how they can help us succeed. Role models are great to have because they can help show you a road map to different kinds of success. You can copy some parts of their journey. Here’s what’s cool… you can have as many role models…

  • Empower Session Week #10 — Friends

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at the importance of connecting with friends. Friends can help you celebrate good times and make you feel better during bad times. Friends help stop you from feeling lonely and give you a chance to express yourself. Friends can also increase your sense of belonging and purpose.

  • Empower Sessions Week #9 — Family

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at the importance of connecting with family. Our family can help motivate us to go out and achieve our dreams. During challenging times, our families can be there to support us, make us laugh and play with us.

  • Empower Sessions Activity Guide Week #8 — Persistence

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at the importance of staying persistent. It is a useful skill to be able stick with something until you get better at it. I bet you can think of some times when you’ve had to be persistent in order to accomplish something.

  • Empower Session Activity Guide Week #7 — Time Management

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at the importance of time management. Have you felt like time is zooming by or dragging on while social distancing? Or maybe the days and weeks are blending together? Whatever you are feeling is completely okay. With good time management, you can be sure to make your time…

  • Empower Sessions Activity Guide Week #6 — Focus

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    This Empower Session takes a close look at the importance of focus. Now more than ever, while we are all stuck at home, it is important to keep our focus level high so that we can do well on our schoolwork and any other tasks that you may have.