My thinking about ACEs is informed by a systems approach I learned while adopting and implementing a management concept called “ Lean Thinking .” There are two essential elements to Lean Thinking: respect for people and continuous...
Upon receipt of an email from a MN state legislator directing my attention to the cost of Governor Dayton’s trying to improve conditions for Minnesota's at-risk youth, I penned this response and would ask you to write something like it and send...
Dinner is served in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Mantua. "You look like you're ready to have a great Dornsife neighborhood partnership meal! Am I right about it?" Rose Samuel-Evans asks the crowd at a free community dinner of chicken...
States seeking to develop or improve policies and practices that divert justice-involved youth with behavioral health disorders to appropriate community-based programs and services are encouraged to apply for the...
If you have to make a complex decision, will you do a better job if you absorb yourself in, say, a crossword puzzle instead of ruminating about your options? The idea that unconscious thought is sometimes more powerful than conscious thought is...
Danish author Askel Sandemose’s works are little read in his home country these days—except, that is, for a small fragment of one novel, A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks, published in 1933. The fragment of A...
Not long before Tony and April Davis met, he was facing up to 60 years in prison for robbery and drug charges. April’s young children had been taken from her and placed in foster care. She was also facing jail time for drug use and child...
I was listening to John Lewis being interviewed (On Being, Krista Tippett, NPR ) about his civil rights work on this MLK weekend – impressed by this 74-year-old who is still able to speak of hope…even when discussing Congress! I can only...
There are millions of people in America that lack the means to feed their families legally. That’s the claim made by Dion Drew, who speaks from personal experience rather than statistical authority. Drew grew up in the projects and...
On the one hand, you can't blame Dartmouth College President Philip Hanlon for trying. Alcohol has long been a problem at campuses around the country, and particularly at the secluded New Hampshire Ivy . An increasing focus on sexual assault...
Conversationsabout affordable housing are often dominated with the question of how to get lower-income residents in expensive cities—like New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco (and their surrounding areas) safe, affordable places to live....
Teens can't control impulses and make rapid, smart decisions like adults can — but why? Research into how the human brain develops helps explain. In a teenager, the frontal lobe of the brain, which controls decision-making, is built but...
If the populations of Knoxville and Chattanooga were combined, they still wouldn't equal the number of adults in Shelby County who experienced some form of abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction as a kid. A new privately...
The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center released a groundbreaking report today that provides important insights to guide the next steps for the nation’s second-largest state to reform its juvenile justice system. The report,...
A broad study of reforms in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department “puts a nail in the coffin” of the strategy of youth prisons as a public safety option, said the director of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group of the Annie E. Casey...