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My name is Bryce Slabinski, and I'm a senior within the Legal Studies Academy at First Colonial High School. Throughout my high school years, I've participated in many clubs and activities, which can be seen on my Resume page. What doesn't appear on that page or on my resume, however, is that I'm a military dependent of seventeen years. I have thus fostered an acute passion for aiding the military community I was raised within, especially the children.
As military children, we experience some things in a few years that most children may never experience in their lifetime. Because of this, many private programs have been instituted to promote and build resilience, or our ability to cope with the stresses we face. But what about the law?
The topic of my legal analysis paper pertains to military children and the laws or statutes that may or may not exist to promote resilience, whether they do so directly or through a government program. In short, I found no laws or statutes, and no government programs. This brought me to my first challenge: to analyze something that does not exist (To see how I did just that, please click the button link shown below).
For my project, I orchestrated a pilot program for military children. The program focused on ways the children can promote their resiliency as individuals, as a group, and with their parents. I did this within a pilot program because, if it were successful and received enough traction, a new program ran by military children for military children could be on the way. The idea of the program has always had the traction, all it needed was a driver. And, as you'll see, I was more than happy to take the wheel.