Teachers and the Expressions Challenge

Teachers and the Walgreens Expressions Challenge   Walgreens Expressions Challenge is a peer-to-peer education program that its ultimate goal is to get teens to inspire their peers to make healthy decisions for a bright future. The program focuses on teens making an effort and helping others. We could not make any of this possible without the … Continued

Award Winning Artist Directs the 2018 Expressions Art Gallery Tour

Walgreens Expressions Challenge is honored to have Raymond A. Thomas, Award Winning Artist and Film Maker direct the 2018 Art Gallery Tour.   Raymond A. Thomas is an award-winning artist, international award-winning filmmaker, and noted creative director. This cross-disciplinary artist won Best of Show and 1st prize at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry’s … Continued

Escape to a World by Ryshaun Brown

Escape to a World by Ryshaun Brown Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, 10th Grade St. Louis, MO Escape to a world within the mind, where your future is yours and your past falls behind. A world you create where low self-esteem doesn’t exist. Come and join me, I insist! Escape to a world within the … Continued

What is Respect? by Finalists Alex Panchot & Reid Doctor

By St. Louis Finalists Alex Panchot and Reid Doctor Metro High School What is respect? What is respect? Respect is an integral part of everyday human interaction. Respect can be towards anyone and anything, but the understanding of respect is the problem for today’s youth. Respect, for me at least, is the common understanding of … Continued

Meet Jaylen Bledsoe

Meet Jaylen Bledsoe, motivational speaker, investor, CEO, and consultant. Did we mention he’s only 16 years old? Yes, at his short age Bledsoe has accomplished much great success. His leadership and natural entrepreneur spirit were invested in him at a very young age.   Bledsoe started his own technology company, Jaylen D. Bledsoe Global Group … Continued

Coming out Fears

 A teen’s perspective. National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is celebrated on October 11. NCOD serves as an awareness day for anyone in the LGBT or LGBT ally communities. NCOD has become a movement in many countries nationwide.  As popular as this day is, it’s crazy to think that every day teens are facing fears that … Continued

Get Informed on Mental Illness

Mental Illness Awareness Week is October 5th –October 11th. It is important to be informed on how mental illness affects our youth, not just this week but year round. One in five teens suffers from a mental illness. Having a mental illness should not be any different than experiencing a physical illness. Now let’s learn … Continued

Did You Know?

Did You Know? Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. More than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection. There are 750,000 teen pregnancies every year. The typical high school student hears anti-gay slurs 25.5 times a day. Over 70% of girls age 15 to 17 avoid … Continued

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