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As an alternative to school-based performances, the troupe is seeking student-generated videos on social-emotional learning (SEL) topics relevant to teens’ lives. Students, parents, teachers, and counselors can access the stories, articles, & videos online at home and at school via MWAH!’s Web site and social media accounts.

An Act of Kindness in a Pouring Rain
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An Act of Kindness in a Pouring Rain

A man pulls up to the hardware store and watched this take place right in front of him. He takes a picture of this kindness and wanted to share. This is his account of what he saw…

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Waffles Change A Life!
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Waffles Change A Life!

Timothy Harrison, 18, opted to work his usual 7:00am - 3:00pm shift as a server at the Center Point, Alabama Waffle House, skipping his Woodlawn High School graduation ceremony in early June 2021 that was to begin at 3:00 p.m.

He’d had no contact with his father, and his mom couldn’t get the day off from her job at a day care center. He had no ride for the ceremonies at the graduation venue in nearby Birmingham, no tickets, no suitable clothing, and no-one to offer him any other kind of help.

No-one, that is, except his Waffle House store manager, Cedric Hampton, and other employees, all of whom immediately went to bat for Timothy that morning with only hours to spare

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Making Mental Health A Priority
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Making Mental Health A Priority

The French Open Tennis Tournament is one of the tennis world’s four Grand Slam tournaments.

Naomi Osaka, who is 23 and currently the No. 2-ranked female tennis player in the world, has won four Grand Slams in her young tennis career.

After she was fined $15,000 for refusing to speak to reporters after her first round victory in France at the end of May 2021, Naomi chose to withdraw from the tournament entirely.

She then told of having had “long bouts of depression” since she defeated Serena Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open and intense anxiety when trying to deal with reporters’ questions.

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The Mamba Mentality
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The Mamba Mentality

Kobe Bryant is regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, having won five NBA championships, was an 18-time All-Star, and was a two-time NBA Finals MVP, having spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. At the age of 41, he and his daughter, Gianna, and seven others died on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. Throughout his lifetime, Kobe found ways of dealing with a variety of emotions we all face, such as anxiety, nervousness, and fear.

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An Act of Kindness
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An Act of Kindness

Brody Klich, a 13-year-old from Wauconda, a northwest suburb of Chicago, has found a friend for life in Luke Goode, a University of Illinois basketball recruit from Homestead, Indiana. Luke and his parents had driven to Indiana in early May for the annual reunion of the basketball movie classic ‘Hoosiers’ where Brody was looking forward to meeting Luke, his current Hoosiers basketball idol. On the morning of the game, Brody had fallen in the hotel shower and was unconscious following an epileptic seizure. He received emergency treatment at the hotel by paramedics and later at Children’s Hospital in Chicago.

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Needing Thoughts & Prayers
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Needing Thoughts & Prayers

MWAH! alumnus Landon Ballard of Rockford, Illinois is recovering from a motorcycle crash on May 7, 2021. He incurred various injuries, including multiple fractures to his left wrist. Surgery is planned within this next week to repair the wrist bones. His motorcycle was totaled.

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