Sometimes visits to cities serious about reducing violence and enhancing the life prospects of vulnerable youth along with strengthening civic bonds in fragile neighborhoods inspire. Really inspire. Such was my visit two weeks ago to the City of Nashville. The visit was just the way I like it: back to back meetings from the street […]
Lighting Paths to Safer Communities
My life’s work has focused on helping to build communities that don’t produce crime. I’ve seen a lot along the way: programs that work and programs that don’t. My new book Policy Walking: Lighting Paths to Safer Communities, Stronger Families & Thriving Youth, highlights the approaches that are working. While the book dives deep, following […]
Policy Walking: Leadership Lessons from the Path
My new book, Policy Walking: Lighting Paths to Safer Communities, Stronger Families & Thriving Youth spotlights programs from across the nation that are actually creating those paths and programs that work. . Equally as important, Policy Walking lifts up the voices of those who run the programs and those whose lives have changed because of […]
Policy Walking: Why I Wrote this Book
A few days ago I met the grandmother of a very dear friend who was visiting her granddaughter here in Northern Virginia. Gerie, a woman with a cap of curled white hair, alert blue eyes and a welcoming smile rose to greet me. She extended her hand, giving me a warm, firm handshake, saying, “I […]
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