Richard T. Cole, who most people know as Rick, is a remarkable man who’s had several careers, sometimes simultaneously. I was first aware of him when he was press secretary and chief of staff to Governor Jim Blanchard in the 1980s.
Later, he was a senior executive at Blue Cross Blue Shield, and worked with Mike Duggan back when the man who became Detroit’s mayor was overhauling the Detroit Medical Center.
But Rick Cole is also an academic with a doctorate who was a professor and department chair at Michigan State. He did some serious writing and research on child abuse, and even served on a Federal Centers for Disease Control task force.
And he contacted me the other day to alert me of a new epidemic of child trauma going on this year, something that was the focus of a study this spring by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The highly respected center, founded by the legendary Morris Dees, exists, as its motto says, “to fight hate and bigotry and seek justice for the most vulnerable members of our society.”
[For more of this story, written by Jack Lessenberry, go to http://michiganradio.org/post/...ol-children#stream/0]
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