Life Skills Series
TM
Life Skills Advisors
Life Skills Series
TM
Life Skills Advisors
Note: In the podcast the term Counselor is used instead of Advisor as described in the LiSA proposal.
STYC Guests
Ashley
Javier
Jesse
Topic:
Life Skills Advisors in Public Schools.
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The Moment
to Invest is Here
Clip from podcast with Santiago Carbajal, former STYC member
and a student at Northeastern University in Boston.
recorded: 8 Aug ’22
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The gift one generation gives the next next.
iCharla Show is a production
of the Dream Forward Foundation.
An IRS 501c3 organization operating in Texas.
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Representative J.M. Lozano was first elected to represent HD 43 in 2010.
He is the current Vice-Chair of the House Public Education Committee, and in May 2021 he was named Chair of the House Select Committee on Youth Health & Safety.
He received his degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Incarnate Word.
STYC members
Asking Questions
Javier Gonzales
Harlingen HS
Harlingen, TX
Jesse James Guerra
Harlingen HS
Harlingen, TX
Ashley Trejo
Rivera HS
Brownsville, TX
PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University. B.S. Candidate 2024
Civil engineering major and energy resources engineering minor.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University. B.S. Candidate 2024
Civil engineering major and energy resources engineering minor.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
Sample of Questions
Ashley asking:
Chair Lozano, we see on the legislature’s website that the select committee met to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health needs of Texas youth. Can you please tell us what stood out as the key points in that hearing?
Javier asking:
Hello Chair Lozano, we see media reports and the term ‘Harden’ keeps coming up. Can you help us understand what is meant by ‘Harden?’
Jesse asking:
Representative Lozano, thank you for joining us.
I have this committee hearing notice from last April.
There are two subjects, which say:
Study the allocation and use of state resources to preventative and rehabilitative services that address the primary challenges facing Texas youth placed in the juvenile justice system, including the redirection of those resources as necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
Study the programs, services, and governmental action focused on the rehabilitation of youthful offenders, including considerations related to developmental factors that impact a youth's entry into the justice system.
Can you please break this down for us, and what main points stood out in the hearing?