"Discover After School" Blog

“Touch a life and change the world.”  That was the keynote address at the recent Michigan After –School Collaborative Summer Summit in East Lansing on May 13.  That’s really what YouthQuest is all about- touching the hearts and lives of children, to help change their world and equip THEM to change the world.

One of my favorite books is called “QBQ! The Question Behind the Question.”  The subtitle is “What to really ask yourself to eliminate blame, complaining, and procrastination.”  The central concept is that too often we

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By Gwendolyn D. Richardson
YouthQuest Site Team Leader for Neithercut Community School

When I think of the community in which I grew up, I often remember the teachers, school administrators, and community members as “change agents”.  You know… people that drove the kind of change we can believe in.

Change agents are people who strive daily to enhance or change the lives of people they encounter every day.  My family (The Smiths) grew up in the Beecher Community School district over a span of three decades.  Our parents moved

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Everyone wants to be successful. And everyone wants to see positive results in their lives, but what makes the difference is preparation. You see a lot of people in many professions, including professional sports. And you wonder, how did they make it?

Preparation.

When you prepare for something, that means you are focusing on what you want to accomplish, you are working hard with no distractions, and you know you will get results. If you sit and hope it will happen, the opportunity for it to happen will never come, because

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