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WA Inmate Reflects on Experience Teaching Roots of Success for First Time
In the article linked below Michael, a Washington State Penitentiary inmate, reflects on his experience as a newly trained Roots of Success Instructor: http://sustainabilityinprisons.org/blog/2013/05/01/root-view-my-experience-as-a-new-roots-of-success-instructor/...
“Root View”: My Experience as a new Roots of Success Instructor
Originally written for and published by SPP “Root View”: My Experience as a new Roots of Success Instructor by Michael Oakes, Roots of Success Instructor. What the heck is “Environmental Literacy” anyway? That’s an expression used a lot in the descriptions of...
Mission High School Students to Earn College Credits for Taking Roots of Success
Earlier this week, eight teachers from Mission High School were certified to teach Roots of Success during a training near their campus in San Francisco, CA. The newly trained instructors will begin offering Roots of Success to students at Mission High later this...
Roots of Success Executive Director Presents Workshop at CWA’s Annual Youth Employment Conference
Roots of Success Founder and Executive Director Dr. Raquel Pinderhughes returned today from a three-day trip to Southern California, where she attended the California Workforce Association's annual Youth Conference and led a workshop on "The Missing Link in Connecting...
South Africa Partner Green Talent Commits to ‘110% Green’ Flagship Project
Roots of Success's partner in South Africa, Green Talent, has signed on as a Flagship Project to '110% Green' -- an initiative of the Western Cape Government that is bringing together a total of 61 projects to mobilize citizens of the province to "commit and act in...
Roots of Success Introduced to Inmates at London’s Wormwood Scrubs Prison
Last week, staff from the Otesha Project UK began teaching Roots of Success to Inmates at London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Tamsin Robertson and Hanna Thomas, Otesha's Roots of Success instructors, spent the day in Wormwood Scrubs piloting the Fundamentals module with...
grist.org Recognizes Roots of Success Instructor Markese Bryant: People ‘Changing the World’
Roots of Success Instructor Markese Bryant was recently profiled as part of grist.org's ongoing series on People 'Changing the World.' Bryant, an Oakland, Calif. native who was thrust "from the mean streets to the green economy" after an arrest convinced him to turn...
Green Career Center Celebrates its 30th Roots of Success Graduation
Earlier this year The Osborne Association celebrated the 30th Roots of Success graduation at their Green Career Center! The Bronx, NY based Green Career Center prepares individuals with current or previous involvement in the criminal justice system to enter and...
Roots of Success Users Profiled by the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program
A case study describing how the Arturo Velasquez Institute, Chicago Botanic Garden, Windy City Harvest, and Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp are using Roots of Success to prepare youth and adults with barriers to employment for jobs in the green economy was recently...
Workforce Training for Good Green Jobs in New York
A recent post in the New York Times Energy and Environment Green Blog is praising New York City’s growing green economy as an important source of jobs for undeserved communities like the South Bronx, which suffer from high unemployment, underinvestment, and...
New Instructors Certified in Houston, Texas
Last month 13 new instructors were certified to teach Roots of Success during a day-long training in Huston, TX for the Lone Star College System -- the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in...
PG&E Awards Roots of Success
The surprise announcement of a grant to Roots of Success by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) was highlighted in a recent article in PG&E's news source Currents. PG&E showed support for the Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based organization launched in...
Roots of Success Featured on Vera Institute of Justice’s Blog “Current Thinking”
In a recent blog post, Evan Elkin and Leah Morgan of the Vera Institute of Justice discuss the Ohio Green Prison Project, a pilot program that in partnership with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC), is using the Roots of Success curriculum to...
New Instructors Certified in the Black Belt Region of Alabama
Over the weekend, on Saturday, October 6, 2012, 16 new instructors were certified to teach Roots of Success during a day-long training in historic Gee's Bend, Alabama -- a geographically isolated community in which many local women have supported themselves by...