Results List
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‘Wasteful’ spending of criminal justice system criticised
Source: The Irish Examiner
By CORMAC O’KEEFFE The criminal justice system is spending "increasing and wasteful" sums of scare resources with poor results, a conference will hear today. Penal reform and children’s groups are calling for a shift from criminal justice to social justice, claiming that "modest investments" in…
Resource type: News
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Department Official Visits Community Schools in Chicago
Source: U.S. Department of Education
(This media advisory was released on July 7th, 2010) U.S. Department of Education’s Alberto Retana, director of community outreach, will visit Chicago Public Schools’ Orozco Academy and Perspectives-Calumet Middle School to interact with students and parents who are benefitting from the schools’ community resources and…
Resource type: News
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Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations
Source: The New York Times
By James Risen. WASHINGTON — Medical professionals who were involved in the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogations of terrorism suspects engaged in forms of human research and experimentation in violation of medical ethics and domestic and international law, according to a new report from a human rights organization. Doctors, psychologists and…
Resource type: News
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Morrow-Howell and McCrary win Generations United Award for evaluation of Experience Corps tutoring program
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
Original Source By Jessica Martin July 31, 2009 -- Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D. the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work and Stacey McCrary, project manager, both at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, are winners of the prestigious Generations United 2009 Brabazon…
Resource type: News
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Homewood 'Children's Zone' Vision Advocated
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
Harlem Children's Zone is an Atlantic grantee. by Joe Smydo John Wallace, a professor who's spent more than two years planning the Homewood Children's Village, said his proposal to provide comprehensive social services to neighborhood children could be operational within 18 months. "I think we…
Resource type: News
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New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Source: The University of Queensland
Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.In evolutionary terms, the brain's ability to remember a fear or trauma response has been crucial to our long term survival.However, in…
Resource type: News
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Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
Source: The Associated Press
by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…
Resource type: News
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Rockland wins $100,000 grant, kicks off its piece of national youth collaborative initiative
Source: The Journal News
By Randi Weiner WEST NYACK - Rockland is one of four counties in New York to get money for a national program designed to help prepare kids for adulthood by improving the quality of youth programs already in place and getting those hundreds of separate…
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Researchers find link between seeing and thinking
Source: University of Queensland News Online
Original Source Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have discovered an important new link between how we see an action – and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation. For more than a decade, scientists have hypothesized that the brain contains a system of ‘mirror…
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Using the Law to Secure Social Change: Case Studies and Briefs on Legal Advocacy
Source: Ursula Kilkelly, Laura Lundy and Angela Matthews
This collection of short case studies and briefs provides insights into how Atlantic grantees used the law to secure social change in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Drawn from a longer report summarized here, the case studies and briefs cover work of Atlantic’s…
Resource type: Case Study