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Across North America, movements of people have come together to build economic, social and political systems that are oriented toward healthy communities. Often, that means systems that function outside of the parameters of capitalism. The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership is one such organization, inspiring thoughtful change and supporting cooperative businesses and education in Detroit, Michigan. Its mission is “to nurture the transformational leadership...

I regularly visit schools as part of my work at iNACOL, but over the past two years, my 80-plus visits have been part of an investigation on the transformation of instructional practices toward personalized learning in schools across the United States. We saw classrooms break free of stifling practices like uniform rows of desks, teachers standing and delivering lessons to passive learners, and students being dulled into submission by bells and other traditional cues. In their place at these...

People exposed to trauma are less able to suppress unwanted emotional memories due to neural and behavioral disruptions in their brain that may contribute to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is characterized by intense reliving of the trauma that is repetitive, intrusive and incapacitating. The intrusive nature of these hallmark symptoms suggests that the inability to suppress unwanted memories may be a strong contributor to the behavioral manifestation of PTSD.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between parental disengagement in childhood and adolescent gun carrying and determine whether this association is accounted for by externalizing problems and affiliation with delinquent peers during early adolescence. METHODS: The sample included 503 boys (55.7% African American, 40.6% white, 3.7% other) recruited from first-grade classrooms in Pittsburgh public schools. Multi-informant assessments were conducted regularly (semiannually then annually)...

One way that extreme inequality shows up in our lives is unequal opportunity in homeownership. And for millennials, these inequalities are compounded by the absence of publicly-supported mortgage programs, such as those that helped white boomers buy their homes after World War Two. Both of us – Jessicah Pierre and Chuck Collins from the Program on Inequality at the Institute for Policy Studies – were interviewed for an article in the “Style Section” of the The New York Times, “ Fly on My...

When Chicago’s police chief, Eddie Johnson, looked out at the sea of journalists to share the breaking news that Jussie Smollett, a well-known and beloved actor, had allegedly staged a violent racist and homophobic attack against himself, he said with great emotion: “Guys, I look out into the crowd, I just wish that the families of gun violence in this city got this much attention.” Chicago is besieged by horrific levels of violence , including thousands of shootings and hundreds of...

The most common introductory example we use when we teach kids about interdependent ecosystems is insects . They may seem gross and small compared to the charismatic megafauna, we say, but insects play all sorts of important roles: pollinating plants, breaking down organic matter, feeding bigger animals. Without insects the whole web would collapse. I don't think many of us who have given this lesson actually contemplated the mass death of the world's insects as a possibility, imminent or...

With the support of a coach you are provided with an environment where you can reflect on your thoughts and practices and make decisions about change. Change can be uncomfortable, however, when paired with clarity it is empowering!

Benevolent Childhood Experiences (BCEs) in homeless parents: A validation and replication study. Merrick JS, Narayan AJ, DePasquale CE, Masten AS. J Fam Psychol . 2019 Feb 28. doi: 10.1037/fam0000521. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30816781 Similar articles Investigating racial differences in clusters of adverse childhood experiences. Maguire-Jack K, Lanier P, Lombardi B. Am J Orthopsychiatry . 2019 Feb 28. doi: 10.1037/ort0000405. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 30816722 Similar articles Factors...

By P. Berman, K. Hecht, & A. Hosack I can’t be late Davy, I need this job! Let me get your pants on. Claire has a part-time job at the community library shelving books. She worked enough hours to qualify for continued foster care. Claire hoped her worries would soon be over. She had been accepted into Dental Hygiene school and would start in the Fall. It would only take her one more year of school and she would earn around $40-50,000 dollars a year- if the school brochure was right. This...

There are still spots available in this upcoming workshop in Boston: TIMBo for Compassionate Organizations Translating Trauma-Informed Values into ACTION Led by Suzanne Jones, creator of the TIMBo Method and innovator in building stress-responsive social networks . March 28, 2019 | 10am - 3pm The Non-Profit Center, 89 South Street, Boston MA Register Now $300 per person ** $250 Early Bird extended! Must register by 3/15/19 ** 4 CEUs for eligible professionals ($35 fee payable at event) The...

There’s no doubt that African American history here in the United States is rich. From Black Patriots in the Revolutionary War, to Lewis Howard Latimer – the real inventor of the light bulb, to Colin Kaepernick standing up to the NFL, we have much to celebrate and many to honor. Whether we choose to recognize it or not, history shows us that many of the battles Black people fought to maintain our own human dignity were won under inhuman systems of labor – literally on the split-open backs of...