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Glad to see that you're getting started and becoming more familiar with the Wiki format. At this point, work on adding more content (a little at a time will make it much easier) and adding references. Please don't hesitate to let me know if there's anything I can do to helpDerosadual (talk) 01:36, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Emily! Has your article been made live yet? From what I can tell you have done some work on this but you are still lacking a reference section. I can see that you have used references but are missing the section for it. ChandlerMPA (talk) 18:45, 24 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I reworded the lead sentence to better describe what the program is. It was unclear, and most of it was a direct copy from the DHS website. I also added a few internal links, such as one to the NC Dept of Health and Human services, and a link to Governor Chafee. I removed the deletion tag, as I think this article can be improved to the point of relevance. It will be a big project. The same link to the NCDHS website is used in numerous places. I am going to clean that up, removing the links from the body and moving them to the bottom and also finding some independent citations for the claims made RE: the problems facing at risk youth.The Original Twisted Poet (talk) 00:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I found a paper by the University of Victoria School of social work to back up the claims made re Aging out youth and problems with Illness, Criminal Activity, Homelessness, Education, etc. I have cleaned up and made neutral the intro changing a description of the reason for choosing the name "Links" to The agencies website claims... Added a fair number of links to the research paper, the cities, the university, the province, I have named the researchers on the team, and added a research team section, with links to sites for the researchers themselves. I feel the dead end tag can now be removed. ...And so the work continues. Many thanks to Emily for getting the ball rolling on this. The Original Twisted Poet (talk) 19:35, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I popped over and Edited the "Namesake" section of the John H Chafee page to have an "Example Program" link point here for state level administration of the programs. This satisfies the "Orphan, as no articles point here" issue, so I have removed the corresponding tag.

Began cleaning up the instances of multiple inline links to the same website with the "Named References tag".The Original Twisted Poet (talk) 20:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]