by Berks Teens Matter | Apr 3, 2022 | Blog, Parents, Teens
Hygiene Habits Based on Cultural Beliefs Not Always The Safest By Celines Valerio, Director of Community Engagement I was around 8-years old when my mother handed me an American Girl book, three ‘tween girls, barefoot and wrapped in towels, smiling on the front cover....
by Nadine Smet-Weiss | May 26, 2020 | Blog, Community Speaks, In The News, Parents, Teens
By Nadine Smet-Weiss Starting the Conversations. . . Take a deep breath. Let it out. Take another deep breath. Starting the conversations is a little like that, one breath at a time. You can do this, I know you can. And you can’t really mess it up. What’s that I hear?...
by Nadine Smet-Weiss | Jan 1, 2020 | Blog, In The News, Uncategorized
An Alternative Plan? By Nadine J. Smet-Weiss, translated by Ana Villaman Palo Magazine January 2020 Local author, David Nazario, speaks a lot of truth. One of my favorite truths in his widely popular book, Make Love Your Religion is, “I often wonder why society tries...
by Bethany Bower | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog, In The News, Uncategorized
“Hey, Bethany? So why DO you do this work?” This is a question I get a lot when I’m in the community representing the Berks Teens Matter team. I do this work for a lot of different reasons, but it begins with a passion I have for engaging with and working with youth....
by Berks Teens Matter | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, In The News, Uncategorized
As the Health Resource Center Coordinator at Reading High School, October’s “Let’s Talk” Month brought so many topics to mind, I couldn’t even pick just one. I thought about the small HRC room and what those four walls are really all about and when it comes down to...
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