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National Guard Honored for Youth ChalleNGe Program

ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program, which helps “at-risk” teens earn their high school diploma or GED, earned national recognition Aug. 31 during the 103rd American Legion ...
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National Guard's Youth ChalleNGe program celebrates 25 years, more than 150,000 graduates

ARLINGTON, Va. -- For Ronny Colindress, attending the Maryland National Guard's Freestate ChalleNGe Academy was a life-changing endeavor. "I honestly thought that I would never be a leader," he said, ...
MyCentralOregon.com

Graduation Held For Oregon Youth Challenge Cadets

Cadets from class 71 of the Oregon Youth Challenge Program (OYCP), graduated during a ceremony held at the Riverhouse ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Arkansas National Guard’s Youth Challenge program discontinued over lack of staff

An Arkansas National Guard program that spent decades dedicated to helping at-risk youth change their lives for the better is being dissolved due to the "safety of the kids," a National Guard ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Youth Challenge program shutdown has not had major impact, Division of Youth Services director says

The shutdown of the Arkansas National Guard's Youth Challenge program has not had a significant effect on the number of youth committed to Arkansas' juvenile justice facilities, the director of the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Freestate ChalleNGe offers at-risk young people a path forward, graduates 59th class

The Maryland Freestate ChalleNGe Academy’s 59th class graduated from the 22-week residential phase of the program on Dec. 17 at Havre de Grace Middle/High School. Lt. Gen. Brian Cavanaugh was the ...