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by School's Out Washington | | Posted under
This Feed Your Brain program in rural Rainier, WA, is one of many summer programs featured in local news stories on summer learning loss.
Here are the latest headlines highlighting afterschool and youth development programs and issues of interest to the field:
- School’s Out Washington CEO Mari Offenbecher and Robert B. Gilbertson, Jr., CEO of YMCA of Greater Seattle, co-authored an op-ed piece in The Seattle Times focused on why we should all care about preventing summer learning loss.
- The Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large profiles the North Seattle Boys & Girls Club celebrating their 70th anniversary.
- Learn about a Feed Your Brain site in Rainier, WA highlighted in The Nisqually Valley News.
- Learn about a Feed Your Brain site in Chewelah profiled on Northwest Public Radio.
- Here are some ideas from Lisa Pemberton, staff columnist at The Olympian, on keeping kids busy and learning during the summer months.
- Learn about a summer science program in Poulsbo in The North Kitsap Herald.
- Kids in Washougal school district receive free summer meals, activities and camps this summer.
