Tagged With "peer support"

Hello, Everyone, I am co-editor of a new publication on Medium.com, to be launched in March 2020. Collective Power is the written arm of Home for Good , a collective organization recently launched after 6 years of planning. HFG began when our founders asked themselves, "What would a system that reflects our love for our children look like?" HFG's mission is to transform the trauma too often perpetuated by the various helping systems, among the people they purport to help—whether the...

Wow interesting !!! I was just thinking about how there is a similarity between animals in shelters and humans in prison .. people love and support no kill shelters where dogs are trained and able to find good forever homes .. they get so much attention and everyone is willing to donate and help save the dogs ... not so much with prisons .. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens,...

January 28, 2014 My Dear Colleague Jeff Bergstrom: The interaction you had with the couple in the restaurant in June 2013 was fascinating, scary and probably an honest summary of some of the mis-information and the biased thinking that dominates segments of this country. I have been told that it is difficult to reason someone out of something that they have not been reasoned into. This may be one of those conversations. But I wonder where the ideas about children in foster care came from? It...