The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is running a special report called "A Time to Heal." This exhaustive series begins with tracing the significant economic issues that have hit "rust belt" cities like Milwaukee (the third-most impoverished big city in the U.S.) and imposed significant social and economic decline. The articles trace how researchers are now exploring why some people who are exposed to childhood trauma emerge undefeated—and whether their resilience can be coaxed out of others and even scaled to entire neighborhoods. Susan Dreyfus, president and CEO of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, which has had its national operations center in Milwaukee since 1986, was quoted in the first article, “The larger social issues that are generational in nature will only be solved if people can reduce the toxic levels of stress in their own lives, and we all work together to reduce it in communities." Jennifer Jones, who leads the Alliance's Change in Mind initiative, was also interviewed for the series and quoted. The first three articles present a comprehensive view of not only how toxic stress and ACEs are forever changing children and families, but also neighborhoods. Informative graphics show the increase in poverty in certain neighborhoods in large cities like Milwaukee, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, etc.
It's not all bad news. The articles trace efforts by researchers, foundations, government, and community-based organizations to not only prevent the issues facing so many of these neighborhoods, but also form resilience in people who have been negatively affected. Here are the first three parts. There are two more to come.
Part 1: http://projects.jsonline.com/n...aunts-milwaukee.html
Part 2: http://projects.jsonline.com/n...actable-problem.html
Part 3: http://projects.jsonline.com/n...tervention-time.html
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