EDUCATION BRIEFS

The YMCA of Metro Atlanta has opened a storefront at the Junior Achievement Chick-fil-A Foundation Discovery Center in Atlanta. As the largest childcare provider in the state of Georgia, the Y will have the opportunity to reach aspiring business leaders through the collaboration and showcase its Early Learning and After School programs within the storefront. The Atlanta location serves students in Atlanta Public Schools, Fulton County Schools and DeKalb County Schools, and allows middle school students to develop skills to successfully navigate today’s complex economic environment and discover how decisions today can impact tomorrow.

Georgia State University’s Creative Media Industries Institute will offer a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in digital filmmaking with a concentration in virtual production and visual effects, addressing the workforce needs of the growing film industry in Georgia. The three-year graduate program aims to shape candidates into skilled visual effects (VFX) artists who possess a thorough understanding of production and post-production.

Chick-fil-A announced that four Atlanta organizations have been named 2022 True Inspiration Awards grant recipients for their remarkable work in the community. Teach One to Lead One, The Stewart Foundation, Bloom Our Youth and Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta are four of 34 organizations being recognized for their commitments in the areas of education, hunger or homelessness.

Kadiant Georgia has opened its newest center specializing in Applied Behavior Analysis therapy (ABA) for children and adolescents diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at 2711 Irvin Way in Decatur. The Decatur location features individual treatment rooms and a group therapy room; a fully-functional adaptive living space, including resources to address independent self-help skills such as sorting and folding laundry, using a washer/dryer, and a simulated grocery store experience; and so much more.

▲Center Parc Credit Union has become the exclusive sponsor of One Love Learning Foundation’s (OLLF) community garden, situated on the rooftop of Maynard Jackson High School. Also known as Jackson Park Farm, the garden will provide fresh produce to those in need in the community as well as to Kevin Gillespie’s neighboring restaurant, Gunshow. The garden supports the school’s science curriculum as well as helping students fulfill their volunteer hour requirements. A select group of student interns also earn a paycheck. Gillespie’s engagement will extend to mentoring student interns to expand their understanding of the restaurant business and food preparation.

the Rollins School of Public Health. Fallin will join Emory on July 1. Fallin currently serves as chair of the Department of Mental Health for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Bloomberg Centennial Professor. She holds joint appointments in the Bloomberg School’s Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. Fallin is also director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities and has led the center since its establishment by the Bloomberg School in 2013.