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Teens Leading Change: Palms-Rancho Park Teens Focus on Teen Health and Wellness at the Library

March 02, 2026

In today's world, social media constantly spreads millions of fast-growing trends about what a teen should be doing to be “healthy,” a word commonly used and broadly defined. Being young, teens are more susceptible to adopting these trends and defining themselves by another person’s version of health.


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Teens Leading Change: Platt Library’s Tech for Seniors

February 25, 2026

As the world advances in high technology and technological innovation, a digital divide forms alongside and stretches greater and greater as everything starts going digital. This digital divide, or digital exclusion, refers to the barriers older generations face in accessing and understanding technology.


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Growing Into My Hobbies

January 08, 2025

Having a true desire for something is more than wanting to do it all day. It's wanting to advance and commit to it. Sometimes even our most beloved hobbies make us take a moment for ourselves, wipe away a tear or 2, and continue.


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TLC in Action: Encouraging Cultural Conversations in Our Community

May 01, 2025

Hi! I'm Shravanthi Raja, a sophomore at Taft Charter High School, and I've been volunteering with the Platt Library for the past 3 TLC cycles. I love to read and visit the library.


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TLC in Action: Financial Literacy for All Ages

March 25, 2025

During the 2024-2025 project cycle, teen volunteers at the Northridge Branch Library have elected to work on a Teens Leading Change project designed to increase financial literacy among people of all ages in the local community. TLC team member Chloe H.


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Teens Leading Change: Lack of Cultural Diversity in Children's Books and Their Effect on Children

March 21, 2025

Books—the foundation of life itself—nurture the creativity and imagination of young minds. Yet, the lack of cultural diversity in children's literature often dims that spark, leaving many without stories that truly reflect their world.


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TLC in Action: Successful Rollout of the Financial Literacy Survey

March 20, 2025

In the Fall of 2024, the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program, a partnership between the Robertson and Palms-Rancho Park Branch Libraries, embarked on an ambitious project to address a critical issue facing teens today: financial literacy.


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Teens Leading Change: Cultural Diversity Through the Arts

March 05, 2025

Hello from the Platt Branch Library, where we are working on a Teens Leading Change project exploring cultural diversity in our community.


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Teens Leading Change: Plans to Boost Interest in Financial Literacy Amongst Youth

February 05, 2025

In the Fall of 2024, the teen volunteers from Robertson and Palms-Rancho Park Branch Libraries partnered in the Teens Leading Change (TLC) program to explore the subject of Financial Literacy for Teens.


Alisha Hassanali

Notes From an Award-Winning Teen Public Speaker

January 08, 2025

Every Saturday as a twelve-year-old, I'd awaken to the sound of my dad starting his SUV, the exhaust stirring in the wet morning fog. I would sleepily stumble into the backseat as the smell of McDonald's hotcakes and hash browns filled the interior of the car.


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