Author: apjn.staff

This summer Peggy Gish spent two months working with Christian Peace Maker teams, first in Kurdistan–northern Iraq–and then on the refugee-jammed island of Lesbos in Greece. The team in Kurdistan is spending considerable time...

Across the globe and particularly in rural, midwest America, young men struggle with what mainstream western culture dictates as healthy masculinity. Current cultural trends promote the idea that men are to be strong, dominant,...

In the late winter, early spring of last year (2015); APJN’s Sexual Assault Prevention Program started meeting with faculty of Athens City Schools to collaborate on revising the Health Curriculum for grades K-12.  We...

HAVE YOU BEEN WANTING TO TAKE A FIRST STEP TO WORK FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE? DOES YOUR GROUP HAVE AN EXCITING PROJECT FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE THAT YOU CAN’T FIND FUNDS FOR? A LIMITED...

Athens High School: We have proposed starting a Men of Strength Club that would meet during the school’s Academic Coaching period. The MoSt Club is an evidence-based curriculum created by an organization in Washington...

Two projects have been the main project areas of DOC this past year. The Bill of Rights Committees, both of Athens county and of Meigs county, grew out of DOC. Following the adoption of...

If you feel discouraged and overwhelmed with all the wars and problems in our society, join the crowd…of people who care! It’s disturbing to know that African American youth fear for their lives when...

You can now support APJN by registering or re-registering (you have to re-register every April) online for the Kroger Community Rewards Program at kroger.com/communityrewards and entering APJN’s number: 32060. Once you register, a portion...