I went to Rodef Shalom, the local temple near where I live, to hear a United Church of Christ pastor from Newtown, CT, recount the chaos, the anger, the tumult of grief and confusion following the murder of twenty children and six adult staffers in 2012: 800 teddy bears arriving from Iowa, 200 apple pies…where […]

“And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S. Eliot How I needed – how we in the audience all needed – to hear  columnist David Brook’s comments that were shared last week at a forum hosted by PathNorth, here […]

“It’s not a program.  They’re family.” William G Gross, Superintendent-In-Chief, Boston Police Department commenting on social workers co-located in BPD’s precinct offices In partnership with the Boston Police Department (BPD), YouthConnect places licensed clinical social workers in police departments throughout the city of Boston.  The partnership allows YouthConnect’s staff to immediately intervene with youth at […]

The youth-led “March for Our Lives” in Washington, DC, and in more than 800 sister marches around the world, attracted huge crowds that have yet to be tallied. Marchers jammed Pennsylvania Avenue to hear the impassioned voices of youth, to witness their moral passion grounded in outrage over the obscene availability of guns, and to […]