“This initiative has been fantastic. If I’ve got an idea or a problem, I know I can call or visit a colleague in a Network city, a colleague who is doing what I’m thinking about doing.” ~Paul Vinetz, LA County Probation With gangs playing a disproportionate role in violent crimes in many communities, probation officials […]
Building a City of Hope
Monterey Herald reports on John A. Calhoun speech. By DENNIS TAYLOR Herald Salinas Bureau Article The path to peace on the streets of Salinas and elsewhere where gang violence is a problem begins with a community effort to instill a sense of hope in young people. That’s the message delivered Thursday by author and crime-prevention […]
Hey, Loved One
Having failed retirement totally, I found myself in a car in Oakland, California with Billy Dupes and Jay Jimenez, two ex-cons who had turned their lives around, committing themselves to work day and night to keep youth from taking the same destructive paths they had once taken. “Streetworkers” the City of Oakland calls them. In […]
BOOK REVIEW: Hope Matters: The Untold Story of How Faith Works in America
There are so many ways that one can be touched by the incredible storytelling of events that redirected people’s lives. John Calhoun’s “Hope Matters” celebrates faith as a verb. You may find a new way of looking for your purpose within those pages. Through the odysseys of individuals, including that of the author, “Hope Matters” […]
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