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The Wyoming Afterschool Alliance is offering Young Entrepreneur Pitch Challenge for school-aged students to submit ideas for services or products that can benefit their communities, the environment, or the state as a whole. The application window opened at the beginning of October and runs through the end of November.

Questions on substance and alcohol use as well as mental health and suicide risk and access to care are some of the questions that are included on the survey. This is the fourth year that the department has conducted it, which was initially launched in 2016 and has been conducted every two years since then. It aims to gauge where the health and health behaviors of those ages 18-29 in a variety of employment sectors and demographics.

A recent survey by the national nonprofit the Trevor Project found 42% of LGBTQ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and young people of color face disproportionate mental health challenges.

Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election with overwhelming support from young voters. This year, the president and Governor Mitt Romney are…