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By Paul Klein, Image: Screen shot from Amazon website, Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 12, 2022 When businesses have serious problems, they find people who have experience in successfully solving similar problems. When it comes to helping to address important social problems, businesses make decisions about how this will be done based on having no experience with the problems they are trying to help solve. In the first chapter I wrote for Change for Good, entitled “Nothing About Us...

By Asher Lehrer-Small, Image: Peter Byrne, The 74, May 18, 2022 E ven at Stuyvesant High School, one of the most academically rigorous and sought-after public schools in New York City, teenage gossip is, well, teenage gossip: who’s crushing on who, who just broke up, who’s the cutest in the grade. But rather than comments whispered in hallways, students frequently share those juicy nuggets through anonymous online “ Stuyvesant Confessions ” accounts on Facebook and Instagram that much of the...

By Jacob Whiton, Theresa Y. Singleton, and Lei Ding, Photo: Window Creative/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, May 18, 2022 Homeownership is widely viewed as one of the primary ways families build wealth in this country, but the racial homeownership gap has been persistently high for decades. Discriminatory housing policies and unique social, economic, and financial barriers are largely responsible for the racial homeownership gap. In this brief, Philadelphia Federal Reserve authors use data...

The Clallam Resilience Project, based on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State - is recruiting a Americorps Member for a Resiliency Outreach and Design Coordinator position lasting from August 2022 - August 2023.

All you educators out there PLEASE know you make a difference. When I emigrated to the USA I was feeling a little lost. After 25 years in UK education what would I do. On my last day as headteacher a parent handed me a letter. A parent by her own admission was not always the easiest to work with! She asked me not to read it until I got to America. Here is what it said: ‘Mrs A I’m not good at this sort of thing. I know I have been avoiding you but that’s because I don’t know what to say. You...

Staggering numbers of children have been subjected to adverse life experiences, leaving a lasting impact on our youngest members of society. This trauma often presents itself in outward behaviors. As numbers continue to increase, our education system has the ability to utilize early intervention to combat this trauma and build resiliency. TWI, The Wordsmith Initiative, is looking for one rural Virginia or North Carolina school district to pilot a whole-child, trauma-sensitive program . Our...

EmpowerSurvivors is currently booking guests for our upcoming EmpowerSurvivor Zooom program, Conversations With Elizabeth. Conversations With Elizabeth is a 90-minute program held on Monday evenings, via Zoom, that supports survivors of childhood sexual trauma, promotes mental health, and covers topics of healing, wellness, recovery, etc. If you are a professional, mental health therapist, holistic health practitioner, attorney for survivors of child abuse, etc. we would love to have you!

Calling all companies, businesses, and organizations! We wanted to personally invite you to our upcoming webinar, Method to The Madness: Mental Health Awareness Made Manageable, May 26, 2022 @ 10 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EST. We are passionate about helping organizations manage the emotional and mental health needs of employees in the workforce. We know businesses are struggling to mitigate the effects of mental health and social and civil justice issues we are facing. As mental health...

What are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, our relationships and our goals, dreams and aspirations? What story are we telling ourselves about the future of the world? Often it is a story from the past. Cause that is all we “know”. We only know what we have experienced. We don’t know what will happen in the future. We think we do… but we really don’t know.

By Loren McCullough, 5/19/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released a year one report “Caregiving in the Context of COVID-19.” Looking at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, over two years ago, and how families and children have been affected in many ways. Closing schools and community resources made an impact on childcare routines. Changes to work life and government support systems also impacted how parents were able to provide...

By Linda Jacobson, Image: Courtesy of Staci Boehlke, The 74, May 16, 2022 O n a rainy Monday before winter break, the hallways at Fruit Valley Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington, were unusually quiet. The pandemic had cut enrollment nearly in half, but that didn’t deter Staci Boehlke, who runs the school’s resource center. She welcomed police officers into the colorful, light-filled space as they dropped off bags of donated toys. She spoke with a parent whose landlord sent a warning...

By Jeremy Loudenback, Photo: Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, May 17, 2022 H oisting signs that read “Fund Families, Not Systems” and “Poverty Is Not Neglect,” protesters in downtown Los Angeles today chanted “Black Families Matter!” and shared their wrenching experiences of family separation through the foster care system. “If you are outraged that the Supreme Court may soon allow the government to reach into your womb and control whether you have children, you should be deeply outraged that...