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Saying Good-Bye, Living One of My Five Best Lives
June 1st will be my last day at The Prevention Researcher. After 4 years and 8 plus months I have submitted my resignation. I would like to say to my team, readers, clients and teens that I have known and loved over the years that it has been an honor pursuing the mission of “Successful [...]
Read More..>>Thurston High School Shooting
This semester I’m taking a policy advocacy class at the University of Southern California, for the masters of social work program. Over the semester we were asked to study a piece of legislature; I chose HR 227 Child Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act of 2011. Looking at this piece of legislature opened my eyes [...]
Read More..>>Trying to Change Social Norms: Start Strong’s Admirable Efforts to Decrease Violence in Schools
Exposure to violence in relationships, families, and communities influences children and adolescents. Adolescent intimate partner violence (IPV) can impede students achieving their academic goals, compromise their physical and mental health, and in extreme cases, result in injury (Schaeffer, Lee, Gallopin, Rosewater, Vollandt, Rosenbluth, et al., n.d.). IPV touches the lives of every person in the [...]
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