All In: The Federal Government’s Plan to Tackling America's Homelessness Crisis
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The Biden Administration’s plan to reduce homelessness by 25% by 2025 is focused on preventing homelessness before it occurs in the first place. Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, discusses how they are urgently addressing basic needs of people in crisis, and expanding housing and support to help people get and stay housed.
Making House Calls to Those Who Have No House: A Street Psychiatrist’s Journey Supporting the Mental Health of Our Unhoused Neighbors
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Many think mental illness leads to homelessness, but a bidirectional relationship exists, and homelessness can lead to mental illness as well. Katherine Koh, MD, a practicing psychiatrist at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses how her innovative practice of street psychiatry supports our unhoused neighbors.
Combatting Los Angeles’ Homelessness Crisis Through Coordination, Outreach, and Support
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Inside Safe, Los Angeles’s program to reduce homelessness, recently achieved its ambitious goal of housing 1,000 people in its first 100 days. Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, CEO of Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, discusses the nature of the challenge, the approach, and the city’s early progress.
Destigmatizing Mental Illness is Essential to Improve Mental Health in Developing Countries and Everywhere
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In low-and middle-income countries, the stigma of mental illness and the lack of resources keep up to 90% of those in need from receiving appropriate care. Tsion Andine, an MD/MPH student inspired by personal experience living with someone with a mental disorder, wants to improve this number by tapping caretakers and the media.
Confronting Poverty and Child Malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa with the Noiler Bird
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the problems of malnutrition and poverty are inextricably intertwined. Dr. Ayoola Oduntan, an ambitious social entrepreneur, is tackling both of these problems with his dual purpose breed of chicken, the Noiler.
Faith in Public Schools: A Third Way
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Despite today’s polarized views about the role religion should play in U.S. public education, Dr. Irvin Scott, Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, argues that partnerships between faith groups and schools can provide critical support for our most vulnerable children.
Embracing ‘The Embrace’
Elliot Davis, 2022 Harvard ALI Fellow and arts leader, examines the Embrace Memorial recently unveiled in Boston. Davis explores the historical significance, artistic elements, and controversies surrounding the monument.
"The Greatest Force America Has" - The Role of Hollywood Movies in Diplomacy with Russia
Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the Soviet Union, discusses how Hollywood’s “soft propaganda” about Russia and Russians may hinder diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine – and how reading Russian literature may provide important clues to the Russian mind.
Modernizing Workforce Development for a Healthy and Inclusive Economy
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Millions of people languish at the margins of the workforce despite nearly two open positions for every unemployed job seeker. Kate Markin Coleman, 2017 Harvard ALI Fellow, offers principles for a data-based, stakeholder-driven, collaborative approach to modernize the nation’s workforce development system.
Care Worker Shortage and Part-Time Work Culture in the Netherlands – An Integrated Approach to Tackle this Labor Conundrum
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The world is facing a shortage of workers. Wieteke Graven, the founder of HPP, summarizes the employment situation in the Netherlands, and details how HPP is helping employers to shape the future of work.
We Should Trust Youth to Drive Their Own Learning
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Studies suggest that too many young people believe what they are learning is not interesting and has no connection with life beyond the classroom. Courtney Welsh and Scott Hefter suggest new models and programs that would allow youths to structure their own curricula.
Invest in Gang Members: A Counterintuitive Approach to Community Change
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How can investing in gang members transform our communities? Michelle Caldeira and Mark Culliton discuss the counterintuitive approach that Uncornered takes to address violent crime.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Begins with One Person, One Community at a Time
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Closing the racial wealth gap is a generational challenge. Khamla Erskine, the executive sponsor of The Fellowship Initiative, details how JPMorgan Chase is bridging the divide, one community at a time.
Welcoming the Stranger at Our Border
Author, immigration reform advocate, and pro bono lawyer, Linda Dakin-Grimm, discusses how her faith influences her work and one of her many successful asylum cases reuniting a family from Guatemala separated at the U.S. border.
Southwire Company and Georgia Schools Innovative Partnership Increases At-Risk Students’ Graduation Rates
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How does a leading wire and cable manufacturer become a source of transformation for at-risk students? Burt Fealing from Southwire and Ethan Rouen from the Harvard Business School describe the 12 for Life program and how it has partnered with communities and achieved collective success.
Can Racially Biased Police Practices Be Fixed?
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Police practices and racial bias remain joined in a tortured dance that many times leads to tragic consequences. How does creative and thoughtful leadership resolve this historical relationship and produce equitable and fair outcomes? Former Chief of Police Renée Hall discusses the continuing struggle to align effective police practices with meaningful solutions.
OneGoal: A Social Impact Solution Where Your Journey Can Become Your Genius
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OneGoal reimagines secondary educational support by visualizing not just what its students plan to achieve but also who they become on their educational journey. OneGoal’s leadership seeks not merely to change the educational support system, but to change how society views the gifts each student develops along the way.
Empowering Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Can Ease the Immigration Crisis and Save Lives
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Like many from countries where poverty and unemployment run high, a large number of young people in Upper Egypt feel hopeless. Ahmed Elmoursi proposes setting up training academies in the region to address the skills gap and provide the needed bridge between school and work.
The Long Haul: Engineering High-Tech Solutions to the Organ Shortage
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Across the globe, the need for organ transplantation has far outpaced the supply of organs. Mary Sauer shares her personal story and describes pioneering innovations that could solve the organ shortage crisis.
Enhancing Access to Organ Transplantation — and Why a Technological Leap is Necessary
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In the United States, the number of people on the transplant waiting list and those who die waiting for an organ continues to rise. James Lytle explains why policy changes are not, by themselves, likely to solve this crisis and why technological advances are necessary to save lives.