Healing Urban Dis-Ease (Gemeinschaftsgefühl 2011)

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Adler School of Professional Psychology

A magazine for alumni and friends of the adler school

SUMMER 2011

Weighing the Effects Mental health and community voice in public policy

Teaming Up on Community Health Adler School students partner with neighborhood organizations 1


Adler School of Professional Psychology Board of Trustees Mary Cahillane, M.B.A., Board Chair Vice President, Finance and Investment The Spencer Foundation

David J. Kreischer, M.A. Managing Partner, Higgins Kreischer and Associates, LLC

Victoria Chou, Ph.D., Vice Chair Dean, College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sid Mohn, Ph.D. Executive Director, Heartland Alliance for Human Rights and Human Needs

Audra Akins, M.A.T.D. Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology and Design, Northern Illinois University.

Harold Mosak, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Distinguished Professor, Adler School of Professional Psychology

Betsy Brill, M.B.A. President, Strategic Philanthropy, Ltd.

Juan Salgado, M.U.P. President and Chief Executive Officer, Instituto del Progreso Latino

Janet Campbell, M.S.W. Coordinator of Child and Youth Mental Health, Ministry of Children and Family Development Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D. President, Adler School of Professional Psychology Ralph DeWitt, M.P.A. Chief of the Investigations Bureau, Cook County (Illinois) State's Attorney's Office William W. Greaves, Ph.D. Director, Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues, City of Chicago Commission on Human Relations James M. Houlihan Former Cook County (Illinois) Assessor

Lindsay Setzer Retired, Former Director, Maples Adolescent Treatment Centre Bernard Shulman, M.D. Director of Psychiatric Services, Diamond Headache Clinic Co-Founder, Adler School of Professional Psychology David Sinski, M.A. Executive Director, After School Matters Javier Ubarri, M.B.A. Chicago Bancorp Eric C. Warner, P.T., M.S. Chief Executive Officer, Accelerated Rehabilitation Centers

Alumni Association Leadership Board

The Adler School Leadership Team

Gary Howell, President, M.A. 2004 Counseling, Psy.D. 2008 Clinical Psychology

Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D. President

Christy Schoenwald, Vice President, M.A. 2009 Counseling Psychology– Art Therapy

Larry Axelrod, Ph.D. Dean, Vancouver Campus

Michael Banghart, Past President, M.A. 2002 Counseling Mark Bilkey, Psy.D. 1997 Clinical Psychology Tim Devitt, Psy.D. Clinical Psychology

Martha Casazza, Ed.D. Vice President of Academic Affairs Anthony Chimera, M.B.A. Vice President of Development Jo Beth Cup, M.S.M. Vice President of Administration

Leigh Johnson-Migalski, M.A. 1999 Counseling, Psy.D. 2006 Clinical Psychology

Jeffrey Green, M.B.A. Vice President of Finance and Technology

Nancy Johnston, M.A. 2006 Counseling and Organizational Psychology

Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D. Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs

Ninfa A. Martínez, M.A. 1994 Marriage and Family Therapy

Lynn Todman, Ph.D. Executive Director, Institute on Social Exclusion

Colleen Mitchell, Psy.D. 2008 Clinical Psychology Roger Peden, M.A. 2001 Counseling and Organizational Psychology Michael K. Ryle, M.A. 2008 Police Psychology Megan Scheible, Psy.D. Candidate Clinical Psychology, Student Representative

Chicago Campus 17 North Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 60602 Vancouver Campus 1090 West Georgia Street, Suite 1200 Vancouver, BC V6E 3V7, Canada

GEMEINSCHAFTSGEFÜHL (geh-MINE-shafts-geh-foohl) 1. (literally) “community engagement” or “social interest,” this Adlerian term is used to describe one’s connectedness and interest in the well-being of others that enhances or pre-conditions psychological health. 2. The revolutionary notion that Alfred Adler proposed in turn-of-the-century Vienna that drives the ground-breaking and far-reaching curricula and commitment to community engagement at the Adler School.


In This Issue 04 Leading Social Change

17 Weighing the Effects

At the forefront in military psychology, LGBTQ mental

Advancing practice and community voice on decisions

health and online education practice

that affect community mental health

07 Teaming Up on Community Health

23 The Global View

Youth sports. Community banking. Minority hiring on public

Partnering, presenting and advocating socially responsible

works projects. What’s mental health got to do with it?

practice throughout the world

13 Conversations on Social Change Talking with Adlerian scholar, psychologist and author Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D.

15 Leading Thought in the Field

25 Our Alumni: Leading Change in the World Cultivating hope and healing in the displaced persons camps of Haiti

Forward thinking and news from the Adler School faculty and institutes Gemeinschaftsgefühl Summer 2011 © Adler School of Professional Psychology • All rights reserved • Produced by Adler School of Professional Psychology • Department of Marketing & Communications • 17 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602 • Telephone: 312-662-4000 • E-mail: marketing@adler.edu • Associate Vice President of Marketing & Communications: Mark Branson • Director of Communications: Kim McCullough • Adler School Student Contributors: Rachel Eddy, Korey Watkins • Design: Kym Abrams Design Photography: Charlie Simokaitis, Corbis, Getty Images • Printing: Unique Active • Contributing Writer: Maureen Kelleher

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From the president

Most of the world’s population growth in coming decades

nation and other countries. This work is advancing the practice

will take place in urban centers. All projections point to this

of health impact assessment to guide public policy makers in

significant worldwide change in how humans are living in the

decisions about infrastructure, transportation, employment,

21st century.

housing, and a host of other seemingly unrelated areas that

Policy makers and researchers across disciplines are explor-

ultimately affect our cities’ mental health.

ing the increasingly complex experience of hundreds of millions

The MHIA is an example of how the Adler School leads as an

of people in burgeoning urban population centers. Last month,

innovator in social change through our mission of preparing

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated, “We

socially responsible practitioners, engaging communities, and

know what policies would strengthen urban good governance

advancing social justice.

and improve the way cities handle such key issues as hous-

As a teaching institution committed to academic and practice

ing, land use, equitable access to land, inheritance and shelter

excellence, we recognize that preparing socially responsible

rights, sanitation, and energy efficiency.” All these issues of

practitioners means preparing practitioners who appreciate the

urban life are social determinants of mental health.

needs of growing urban communities. This issue describes im-

I have lived in major cities my entire life, and the Adler

portant work of our faculty, students, and alumni in those urban

School is located in two of the world’s great cities—so I appreci-

communities—from the neighborhoods of Chicago’s West Side,

ate the many positive and healthy aspects of urban living. At the

to the makeshift settlements in and around Port-au-Prince,

same time, there are specific risks to the collective well-being

Haiti, to the fragmented post-war communities of Sri Lanka.

and mental health of growing urban communities. What we call

Our faculty has developed an approach for our community

in this issue of Gemeinschaftsgefühl “urban dis-ease.” At the

psychology coursework that goes farther and deeper than

Adler School, we’ve been exploring the issue of urban dis-ease

volunteerism or community service. On Chicago’s West Side,

for a while. And, we’ve pioneered ways to address it.

our faculty and students have found that youth sports,

Last summer, our Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE)

community banking, and public work projects are closely tied

convened the United States’ first-ever conference on social

to the determinants of one neighborhood’s mental health.

determinants of mental health—bringing together public health

And, one of our Vancouver alumni, Jennifer Van Wyck, finds

officials and policy makers, health service providers, and

ways to support community and health within the displaced

academics and practitioners from seven countries. Our keynote

persons camps outside Port-au-Prince.

speaker David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General, called our

Jennifer’s report reminds me that change is not only pos-

conference “cutting edge” in its focus. And in his remarks, he

sible, it’s our responsibility—to question, to think differently,

called for the start of a global movement to change policies that

and to lead. When we engage cities in collaborative partnership

affect social determinants of mental health.

that strengthens communities, provides service, and prepares

Within months, we took the next significant, cutting-edge

students, we lead social change.

step. As you will read in this issue of Gemeinschaftsgefühl, our ISE convened a team of faculty, students, policy makers, public health officials, and community members to develop a firstof-its-kind Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) to take systemic action. Only months into this pioneering project, we’re fielding in-

Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D.

quiries about the MHIA and its potential application across the

President

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Leading Social Change

Nation’s First Psy.D. Program with Military Psychology Track Launched The United States’ first clinical

• The occurrence rate of post-traumat-

increased incidence of TBI, spinal

psychology doctoral program with a

ic stress disorders (PTSD), now double

cord injuries, and other brain injuries

military psychology track has been

the rates of prior conflicts such as the

requiring long-term clinical psychological

established at the Adler School—amid

Korean War, the Vietnam Conflict and

services including medical and rehabili-

a growing shortage of behavioral health

the first Gulf War. The PTSD rate among

tative psychology.

professionals serving U.S. troops just

women was recently identified at close to

The Veterans Administration also

as suicide and post-traumatic stress

40 percent.

continues to expand both hospital and

disorder is on the rise.

• The nature of modern conflict, such

clinic-based behavioral health services

Joseph Troiani, Ph.D., a retired U.S.

as use of improvised explosive devices,

to meet the needs of increasing numbers

Navy commander, clinical psychologist,

that has produced significant rates of

of veterans turning to the VA system

and Coordinator of the Adler School’s

increase in traumatic brain injury (TBI).

for services—providing significant

Military Psychology track, points to the

• Advances in military medicine that

opportunity for military psychologists.

need for the new track citing:

have produced falling death rates but

Chicago Celebrates Adler School Campus Opening “As a city, we’re truly proud of the Adler

by Chicago-based and internationally

School’s commitment not only to our

renowned OWP/P Cannon Design;

citizens but to the rest of the world.” So

met faculty, students and staff; and

said Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in

learned more about the School’s current

remarks to more than 500 alumni, faculty,

and future initiatives including anti-vio-

students, staff, community represen-

lence programs in Chicago’s Englewood

tatives, and leaders from throughout

and Back of the Yards communities.

Chicago and the nation who gathered

Learn more about the technologically,

January 11 for the grand opening of the

environmentally, and architecturally

Adler School’s new Chicago campus.

innovative new campus at

Throughout the night, guests toured

adler.edu/page/campuses/chicago.

the state-of-the-art campus designed

From left: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, with Adler School President Raymond E. Crossman at the new campus opening 4


Rahm Emanuel speaks at the Adler School, shortly before his election as Chicago’s new mayor.

Zoaib Mirza, M.A. Director, Adler Online

Historic Forum Speaks to LGBTQ Issues

Adler Online Recognized for National Best Practice

For the first time ever, candidates

Chicago’s new mayor.

running for Chicago mayor came

The Adler School worked closely with

together during the 2011 campaign to

leadership from the Association for Latin

specifically address issues of education,

Men of Action (ALMA), the AIDS Founda-

Adler Online—which leads the

housing, youth, civil rights, and public

tion of Chicago, Affinity, Amigas Latinas,

Adler School’s blended and online

safety facing the LGBTQ community. The

Equality Illinois, LGBT Change, and

learning programs and services—has

historic mayoral candidates’ forum took

The Civil Rights Agenda representing

been recognized by a U.S. national

place at the Adler School on February 9.

a coalition of 32 LGBTQ advocacy

higher education consortium for best

“I want to thank you—for your dedi-

organizations that organized the event.

practice in innovating faculty and

cation and your love for the city—and

Media coverage of the forum included

student support systems for blended

most importantly Adler, for hosting this

Chicago’s ABC, NBC and Univision

education.

event and for what you do to make this

affiliate stations; the Chicago Tribune;

The Sloan Consortium, a leader-

a stronger and better city,” candidate

the Huffington Post; and the Windy City

ship association in higher education

Rahm Emanuel told forum attendees,

Times. For more information including

engaged in online learning, recog-

just weeks before his election as

a link to video, visit adler.edu.

nized the Adler Online initiative as one of the nation’s top five practices for innovation, replicability and success in

Center for LGBTQ Mental Health Announced

advancing access, learning effective-

This fall, the Adler School will establish

regarding LGBTQ health services and

and scalability.

the Center for LGBTQ Mental Health at

mental health through an emerging

its Chicago campus to provide new cur-

advocacy and research agenda.

ricula, advocacy, thought leadership and

The Center’s founding director will

research on LGBTQ mental health for the

be hired this summer to begin working

public as well as students of the school.

closely with faculty to develop plans

The Center will lead to the development and programs for students’ education of new coursework, certificate programs

and training. Additional priorities will

and degree programs at the Adler School.

be to build local and national partner-

It is also expected to become a resource

ships for advocacy and research.

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ness, faculty and student satisfaction, Zoaib Mirza, M.A., Director of Adler Online, and Paul Collins, Associate Vice President of Technology, accepted the 2010 Effective Practice Award at the Eighth Annual Sloan-C Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, March 29 in Oak Brook, Ill.


Faculty Bookshelf

Conferences + Events

The Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action

Transformative Change in

ISBN # 978-1456324162

Mental Health

The proceedings from this pioneering

was the nation’s first to convene think-

Pre-conference meeting of the Society

conference of the Adler School’s Institute

ers and practitioners from diverse

for Community Research and Action

on Social Exclusion—featuring keynote

backgrounds to effectively address

(SCRA) Biennial Conference

speaker and former U.S. Surgeon

social determinants of mental health.

June 15, 9 a.m.– 4 p.m.

General David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.—

Adler School of Professional Psychology 17 North Dearborn Street, Chicago For more information: www.scra27.org Begum Verjee, Ed.D. Program Director of M.A. Community Psychology, Vancouver Campus

The Adler School will host this international mental health pre-conference focused on contributions that community psychology perspectives and practices can make in restoring “community” in mental health systems and services. For alumni

Networking: The Way of Connection Today and for a Lifetime July 21, 4-5:30 p.m. Adler School of Professional Psychology Women of Colour Talk Back: Towards a Critical Race Feminist

17 North Dearborn Street, Chicago

Practice of Service-Learning ISBN #978-3838329581

For more information: adler.edu/events

Begum Verjee, Ed.D.

Gain new tools to clearly, succinctly,

Verjee, Program Director for the Adler

of color when the institution remains

and compellingly convey during the job

School’s M.A. in Community Psychol-

a site of white, male, and class-based

search how you impact an organization

ogy Program in Vancouver, explores

structures, discourses and practices?

or group of people through what you

the development of service learning

Through counter-storytelling, women of

offer. Reserve your place for this free

from a critical race feminist perspec-

color as students, staff, faculty, and non-

workshop at alumni@adler.edu.

tive within context of the University of

university community members relayed

British Columbia’s work. How could

their experiences—forming the basis for

Homecoming 2011: Chicago Campus

the university develop service partner-

a service learning model founded on a

October 22, 7-9 p.m.

ships with individuals and communities

transformative view of education.

Adler School of Professional Psychology Watch for the announcement: adler.edu 6


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Teaming Up on Community Health Youth sports. Community banking. Minority hiring on public work projects. What’s mental health got to do with it? Quite a lot, as students are learning in Community Psychology

borhoods to partner with community organizations working

classes taught by Nataka Moore, Psy.D., and Josefina

for change. The students dug deep into concrete issues that

Alvarez, Ph.D. at the Adler School. Their pedagogy takes the

affect the neighborhoods—and saw firsthand social deter-

Adler School’s recognized focus on community engagement to a

minants of community mental health and how to transform

new level, immersing beginning master’s and doctoral students

them positively.

in local issues that strongly impact community mental health.

The approach is designed to benefit both community resi-

In Community Psychology, students get a wide-angle lens on

dents and Adler School students. “We asked [the community]

community mental health that is very different from the field’s

‘What can we do? How can our students develop projects that

traditional focus on the therapeutic counselor/client relationship.

advance your work?’” Moore says.

“In order to make the individual well, we have to support the

It’s very different from the traditional university research

community as a healthy one,” says Martha Casazza, Ed.D., Vice

model, which views neighborhoods as subjects of research.

President of Academic Affairs at the Adler School. “That all

Casazza says, “Other programs may sit in a classroom and

comes from Alfred Adler—it’s a basic tenet we’re following.”

develop a project based on what they read in a textbook or

To orient their students immediately to the mindset, Moore and

hear in a lecture, and then go out to the community and ask if

Alvarez led them into field work in two challenged Chicago neigh-

they can conduct research. You’re looking for subjects to (continued on next page)

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Austin Little Leaguers and their coach confer at a recent practice.

“[The Adler School students’] research has been put to work in WHA’s after-school department in our efforts to implement mental health programming.” Jonathan Currie, community organizer, Westside Health Authority

study your project through. The way we do it shows respect. It’s

get funding,” says Jonathan Currie, a community organizer for

showing the community we recognize them as the experts in

WHA. “Their research has been put to work in WHA’s after-school

the community, and they’re going to guide us.”

department in our efforts to implement mental health program-

Last fall, Moore’s 32 students worked with Westside Health

ming. Our growing recreation and sports programming can also

Authority (WHA) in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood to research

use the master grant proposal for any related funding opportuni-

key issues like community banking and minority hiring. WHA

ties that arise.”

is a community-based nonprofit organization, founded in 1988

Moore says, “[Students] really had to make the connection

with the mission to use the capacity of local people to improve

about how youth programming and exercise impact the mental

the health and well-being of West Side residents.

health of children. They learned if you’re concerned about the

It works with a broad base of hospitals, clinics, social service

mental health of youth in a community, it often comes down to

organizations, churches, and community residents in the areas

developing programs—and that requires funding.”

of youth development, violence prevention, technology, employ-

For the Adler School students, the process began with in-class

ment, economic development, and health promotions. Through

presentations from WHA leaders and neighborhood residents.

WHA’s asset-based community organizing project “Every Block

The class then took a resident-led tour of Austin, a low-income,

a Village,” community residents connect with each other for

predominantly African-American community that is Chicago’s

mutual support and community-building within a 68-block area.

largest neighborhood both geographically and in population.

Already, WHA is examining a module that the Adler School

Students saw first-hand that even a challenged neighbor-

students developed for youth mental health prevention and

hood has significant assets of which mental health practitioners

intervention. The authority is preparing to apply the module in

should be aware. “All the houses had lawns; people were so

its after-school programs. The students also created a mas-

friendly. They had a beautiful park. That wasn’t what I was

ter proposal for WHA’s Youth Sports—critical to helping WHA

expecting,” first-year master’s student Rachel Eddy says.

sustain its new Little League that kicked off in March with a

Other assets were harder to see—which underscored the

baseball clinic for 300 youths.

importance of resident guides to point them out. Eddy says a resi-

“What the group did well was listen to some of the staff here

dent who visited her class spoke on the tour about the respect

and put their words into a document that will one day help us

that young people, even drug dealers, have for community elders. (continued on page 12)

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“Students really had to make the connection about how youth programming and exercise impact the mental health of children.� Nataka Moore, Psy.D., the Adler School

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By the Numbers

The Adler School Community Service Practicum Recognized as an “Innovative Practice in Graduate Education” by the American Psychology Association Board of Educational Affairs, the Community Service Practicum (CSP) is another curricular hallmark at the Adler School in preparing future practitioners to address systemic improvements to community mental health. Every student engages in a CSP—a non-clinical and community-based practicum—during his or her first year of study. For more about CSP or becoming a communitybased practicum site, visit adler.edu.

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The length of a Community Service

months

Practicum during a student’s first year at the Adler School

190

hours

The minimum hours that students devote to on-site work in the community during the practicum

Hours of direct community

70,000+ hours

service students provide annually through CSP alone: writing grants, creating curricula, providing research, conducting client focus groups, supporting legal advocacy campaigns, and much more—that helps communities advance systemic change for improved community mental health

360,000+ people

Lives affected through these efforts and more through the Adler School and its students each year

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Christie Ledbetter, Clinical Psychology doctoral student, part of this year’s Community Psychology course experience working with community partners in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood

“If there’s an elder on the street who says ‘You need to get

new master’s program in community psychology will

out of this area,’ that young person will respect them,” Eddy

see the local face of issues like access to programs that

says. “How there are still these strong traditions was a com-

advance opportunities for children and youth, through site

pletely new idea for me. I probably wouldn’t have caught that

visits to community agencies, says Begum Verjee, Ed.D.,

[without a resident guide].”

who directs the program.

After observing the neighborhood and getting a base of fa-

For now, students are getting exposure through guest

miliarity, the class developed an assessment of Austin’s needs

speakers. Verjee says, “People are coming in from the

and assets. Groups began tackling the research projects.

community and from government to talk about the work

Christie Ledbetter, a first-year Clinical Psychology doctoral

they are doing. It offers the students a sense of the work

student, was on the team addressing community youth sports.

possibilities open to them.”

“We wrote a grant document on the importance of a youth

Those possibilities include meaningful work as urban

sports league within the community and the importance of

social and health planners, coordinators for crime

youth sport participation for healthy development, and to help

prevention and restorative justice, community organizers,

fortify and expand the youth baseball and basketball leagues,”

and consultants on community-based research, impact,

she says. “Since I am not a Chicago native, this project opened

and investment.

my eyes to surrounding areas of the city and afforded me the

On both Adler School campuses, in Vancouver and

chance to connect.”

Chicago, the enhanced hands-on emphasis provides

Eddy’s group researched traditional, charter, and vocational

solid preparation for the Community Service Practicum

high schools to inform Austin residents as they organize to win

(CSP), one of the Adler School’s trademark educational

a new high school for the community. Austin’s only neighbor-

experiences. (See sidebar)

hood high school closed in 2007—and winning a new high

The CSP experience offers students frontline exposure

school capable of serving the entire area is a high priority

to social issues by placing them with agencies to become

among residents.

involved with community organizing, grant writing, needs

“We tried not to draw conclusions,” Eddy says. “We tried to

assessment, program design, evaluation, and more. The

give them all the information, so they could decide what to do

Amercian Psychological Association has recognized the

with it.” Doing the research also taught her the importance of

Adler School’s CSP as a best practice in graduate education.

perspective as a clinician.

Now, students are entering CSP with a stronger

“To do a project with a community like that was really eye-

sense of how to tackle community change.“They have a

opening. You have to look at it from every angle. You can’t form

greater appreciation of why they’re doing their Community

opinions without exploring the situation. Not every patient is

Service Practicum. They are coming prepared to meet

going to be similar to you.”

with supervisors and say,’I understand this problem and

In Vancouver, students in the first cohort of the campus’

here are some tools I have to address it,” Moore says. 12


Conversations on Social Change

A Conversation With

Paul Rasmussen Scholar, psychologist and author Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D., recently

holders need to be realistic with just

joined the core faculty at the Adler School teaching doctoral courses in Adlerian

how much pie they need. This is part of

techniques in case conceptualization and intervention. He also directs the Adlerian

social interest.

certification program and coordinates the program in parent training.

The issue is very much part of the protest and upheaval that we are currently observing in northern Africa.

As we examine social determinants

constrained by cultural changes. Nor will

America and many religions were cer-

of mental health today, how do

the need to look at the person holistically.

tainly founded on these principles. But

Alfred Adler’s concepts hold up? In my opinion, very well. But this needs to be qualified. In many ways,

That we are talking more and more

any time resources become limited and

about the bio-psychosocial model is

valuable, greed will motivate people to

evidence that the discipline is moving that

take more than their necessary share.

psychology has moved on to other ways

direction. Eventually, the idea of social

of thinking about the human condition.

interest, probably in the form of social

Turning now to your book: The

The language that Adler and [Rudolf)

cooperation, will become popular.

Quest to Feel Good (2010) examines emotions—particularly negative emo-

Dreikurs used has not been part of the contemporary dialogue. But Adler and Dreikurs were way

You’ve explained that social coop-

tions—as critical adaptive mechanisms.

eration along with social interest—

What was your goal in writing it?

ahead of their time. I would argue it’s

gemeinschaftgefühl—requires increasing

probably going to be a few more genera-

the cooperative responsibilities of those

tions of psychologists before the broader

who control resources—so the psycholo-

There is a big schism between the clinical literature on emotional disorders and the non-clinical literature

discipline catches up. However, given the

gist’s role can’t be directed simply at

on emotions. There are clearly excep-

language differences, when that catching

helping the disadvantaged take advan-

tions, but counselors and clinicians don’t

up does occur, one may not recognize the

tage of resources. Can you elaborate?

often read the non-clinical literature on

Adlerian ideas unless they look because it

It can’t just be helping the

emotion, and the emotions researchers

probably won’t be Adlerian terminology. Adler and Dreikurs were smart and

disadvantaged take advantage of

aren’t that interested in intervention. I

whatever resources the advantaged

don’t think there is much qualitative

amazingly insightful. But they weren’t

choose to make available. Those advan-

difference between an emotional disorder

prophets or gurus, and their insights and

taged folks need to reflect on what they

and “just” an emotion, so there is value

descriptions were constrained by their

really need and control their greed, and

in looking at the emotion literature to

cultural realities. As a result, some of

make sure the resources they control are

understand emotional disorders.

the perspectives they took and the way

made available.

This book is an attempt to bridge the

they described some things no longer

You can take pretty much any contem-

gap I’ve observed—to do so at a level that

make sense.

porary sociopolitical issue and see this

is scholarly respectable, but at the same

However, the idea that each person is

debate. The more the advantaged hog the

time be accessible to others who aren’t

striving to find a place of safety, comfort,

pie, the more likely the disadvantaged

mental health professionals. I think we

worth, and significance will never be

to fight for more pie. The advantaged pie

ought to focus on what people are all

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about. They want to try to feel as good in this existence as they possibly can. So we really define the quality of our lives, not independently of thinking, but by how we feel about our lives. Rationalizations are just verbal manipulations to justify what one’s done to resolve a bad feeling or to create a good feeling. Logic is almost nonexistent. So, to me, emotions are really primary to the human experience. That’s what I’m trying to argue with the book. What do you find exciting about teaching at the Adler School at this point in your career? What I find exciting about teaching at the Adler School is the opportunity to work with bright, motivated students who are activity engaged in thinking about the human experience, and to interact with highly competent colleagues with a similar passion for teaching and learning. Also, as one grounded in Adlerian theory, I am particularly excited to be at the premier center for advancing Adlerian thought and practice. Watch video of our faculty and leadership discussing social change. Visit adler.edu and click on “Conversations on Social Change.” Adler School student Korey Watkins contributed to this article.

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leading thought in the field tions to projects that support collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs creating a campus infrastructure that supports and demonstrates civic engagement and student involvement in three areas: co-curricular service, leadership development, and curricular activities. The Adler School launched the SRP Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D. Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs

Project last fall as an initiative of its new strategic plan to reflect on its organizational core competency of socially responsible practice. Through a yearlong schedule of conversations,

Grant Supports Socially Responsible Practice Project

events, and activities, faculty, staff,

Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D., Associ-

The grant will support the School’s

and debate socially responsible practice,

ate Vice President of Academic Affairs,

work developing community engagement,

as well as express through art, music,

and Nancy Bothne, M.S., Director of

data collection, assessment, literature

and other experiential means.

Community Engagement, with student

review, and an action-plan white paper to

The white paper published this

leader Melissa Dreffin, recently secured

be published in May.

month updates the Adler School’s 2006

a McCormick Foundation grant through

The “Strategic Civic Leader Fellows

socially responsible practice document,

the Illinois Campus compact, supporting

Grant” awarded to the Adler School is

and describes the existing educational

the Adler School’s Socially Responsible

among several that Illinois Campus

model, outcomes and culture. For more,

Practice (SRP) Project.

Compact provided to its member institu-

visit adler.edu.

Priola-Surowiec Receives Illinois Award for Outstanding Contributions to Criminal Justice

Victoria Priola-Surowiec, Psy.D.

has honored Victoria Priola-Surowiec,

Newest Core Faculty Named to Adler School

In their nomination letter to the acad-

Paul Rasmussen, Ph.D., Core Faculty,

emy, Priola-Suroweic’s students—police

Doctor of Psychology in Clinical

officers who see first-hand the impact

Psychology Program. See feature,

of her work in the field—said: “She is a

page 13.

dedicated professional who has delivered

Karen Koch, Psy.D., Program Director,

beyond her duties an avenue for police

Master of Arts in Counseling: Forensic

officers that has changed the way polic-

Psychology Program.

ing is performed. She is truly an innovator and a positive contributor to the field of

The Illinois Academy of Criminology

students, and alumni gathered to discuss

criminal justice.” Priola-Suroweic received the award at

Michele Kerulis, L.C.P.C., Interim Director, Master of Arts in Counseling: Sport & Health Psychology Program. Robert Musikantow, Ph.D.,

Psy.D., Department Chair for Forensic

the academy’s annual awards ceremony

and Police Psychology programs at the

May 6 in Chicago. She is a member of

Adler School, with its prestigious Ann

the Association for Innovation in Law

O’Brien Stevens Award, presented annu-

Enforcement, the International Associa-

Maricruz Ramos, N.C.C., L.P.C.,

ally for outstanding contributions to the

tion of Chiefs of Police, and the Police

Core Faculty, Master of Arts in

field of criminal justice by a woman.

Executives Research Forum.

Counseling Program.

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Core Faculty, Master of Arts in Counseling: Organizational Psychology Program.


Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice Welcomes New Leadership The Adler School has welcomed new

clinical-community psychology at DePaul

and strategic planning. A Ph.D. candidate

leadership to its Institute on Public

University and her undergraduate work at

in community research and action at

Safety and Social Justice (IPSSJ).

University of California–Santa Cruz.

Vanderbilt University, Cooper holds a

Elena Quintana, Ph.D., comes to

Dan Cooper, M.S., has been named

master of urban planning and policy from

IPSSJ this month as its new Executive

Assistant Director of IPSSJ. He joins the

the University of Illinois at Chicago and a

Director. She had previously served as

Adler School from Bethel New Life, a

master of science in community research

director of evaluation for the Chicago

community development corporation on

and action from Vanderbilt University.

Project for Violence Prevention (Cease-

Chicago’s West Side, where he served

The work of the IPSSJ is to analyze

Fire) at the University of Illinois at

for three years as director of evaluation.

current public safety and security policies

Chicago since 1999.

He has also served as an adjunct faculty

with regard to social justice; engage in

While there, Quintana developed a

member at the Adler School, teaching

practical field work that encourages

hospital initiative to prevent retaliations

community psychology.

residents and public safety officials to

immediately after shootings, a Chicago

Cooper has worked with community-

work together to build safer, healthier

Public Schools initiative serving youth

based organizations and coalitions

communities; and stimulate public

at highest risk, and an Iraq initiative

throughout Chicago on issues ranging

discourse on the balance between public

to resolve general community conflict

from violence prevention, youth develop-

safety and social justice issues. For more,

in Basra, Iraq.

ment, and organizing and coalition build-

visit adler.edu/ipssj.

Quintana completed her doctorate in

ing, to housing, economic development,

Vancouver Project Helping Communities Address Youth Gangs

ISE Pilots At-Risk Youth Mentoring Program

Deb Bailey is Lead Faculty Coordinator

resources: 1. a provincial toolkit and

Starting in June, the Institute on

for the Adler School Vancouver cam-

curriculum for communities to address

Social Exclusion (ISE) will pilot a best

pus’ General Service Agreement with

youth gang issues and 2. a Greater

practice-based mentoring program

the British Columbia Ministry of Public

Victoria learning package including an

that has grown from its work the last

Safety and Solicitor General to develop a

evaluation and final report that docu-

two years guiding a highly successful

“Learning Package and Provincial

ments the training session development

anti-violence program for at-risk youth

Toolkit—Enhancing Frontline Effective-

process, proceedings, and learnings,

on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

ness to Respond to Youth Gangs.”

and next steps for addressing youth

The new mentoring program will

The project involves developing two

gangs in Greater Victoria.

work with at-risk African-American boys 14 to 17 years of age, providing them with strong adult mentors who can positively impact the boys’ levels of selfesteem, self-concept, academic performance, guidance, and emotional support. ISE developed the pilot based on literature review of best practices for the targeted population and needs assessment of prospective mentees. Read about more projects, research and news from the Adler School institutes at adler.edu/institutes.

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Weighing the Effects Longtime community leader Jean Carter-Hill lives on the 6100 block of South Ada Street in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. As of March, five houses on her block stood vacant, including one next door to her home. “There was a fire in the building,” she says. “I’ve been in touch with the police and fire departments, trying to get it demolished. It’s a hazard.” 17 SUmmer 2011 gemeinschaftsgefÜhl


Jean Carter-Hill, Executive Director of Imagine Englewood-IF and member of the Institute on Social Exclusion’s MHIA project team, on the block where she lives.

Police have arrested people for entering that building, she

the anxiety and stress Carter-Hill and her neighbors face.

says, and she frequently calls a neighbor who is home during the

This kind of situation also calls for legislative and policy

day to monitor for trouble. “Sometimes it kind of makes you sick

decisions that address the root cause of their stress and anxiety.

to think about all the things that go on that you can’t do anything

An example is the recent proposal to amend Chicago’s vacant

about. I’m about ready for some mental help myself,” Carter-Hill

buildings ordinance to require banks to secure and maintain

says, laughing. Then, more soberly, she adds, “For real.”

their foreclosed properties, and increase fees and stiffen penal-

To Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute on

ties related to registering foreclosures.

Social Exclusion (ISE) at the Adler School, traditional psychologi-

To ensure that policy makers account for the mental health

cal approaches like one-on-one counseling or helping people

implications of their decisions, Todman leads a diverse team of

develop “coping” skills are only part of the answer to addressing

academics and community leaders developing a Mental Health (continued on next page) 18


"We seek to address both poor community mental health and the lack of community voice in public decision-making processes." Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute on Social Exclusion

Impact Assessment (MHIA) tool—the first of its kind in the

ISE last June convened the nation’s first conference highlighting

United States and only the second in the world.

the social determinants of mental health—which include hous-

The MHIA project advances established practices in urban

ing quality, neighborhood conditions, food security, employ-

planning and public health—assessing the environmental

ment opportunity, working conditions, public safety, and public

and physical health impacts of public decisions—into mental

service systems.

health. By doing so, the project is attracting buzz and informa-

tion requests to the Adler School from researchers, community

action,” says Jared Berger, an Adler School doctoral student

“The enthusiasm sparked by the conference propelled us to

leaders, and policy makers, both nationally and internationally.

who works at ISE. From there, the team implemented a pilot

The goals of the MHIA, Todman says, are “to create a pro-

MHIA last fall in which it assessed the likely mental health

cess by which mental health professionals can impact public

implications of the proposal to change Chicago’s vacant building

policy decision-making, and ensure that communities have

ordinance. The team examined literature and solicited commu-

a voice in the decisions that affect them. We seek to address

nity and other stakeholder input to develop a series of hypothet-

both poor community mental health and the lack of community

ical pathways illustrating the relationship between the proposal

voice in public decision-making processes.”

and the mental health of the Englewood community.

Too often, government decisions made without considering

A policy brief was written and presented to the sponsoring

mental health implications have harmed communities in the

alderman, Pat Dowell, who asked Todman to testify before the

long run. Take, for instance, the decision in the 1940s to house

full Chicago City Council when the measure comes up for a vote.

low-income families in densely populated high-rise housing

Community input is essential to a valid and meaningful MHIA,

projects. Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, completed in 1962,

Todman says. “Too often, people in communities like Englewood

provides a notorious example of a housing project that fostered

are ‘acted upon,’” she says. “They don’t even know policy is

economic decline and social decay. It was demolished in 2007.

coming, and then they have to live with it. The idea of the MHIA

“Sometimes we make decisions without understanding fully

is for residents of such communities to weigh in on and influ-

how those decisions are going to impact people and their com-

ence those decisions to help ensure that they promote good

munities,” Todman says. “The MHIA is a tool that can be used

health and well-being.”

to help ensure that the government doesn’t make decisions

To that end, Englewood community representatives, including

that harm the health and well-being of communities, espe-

Carter-Hill, as Executive Director of Imagine Englewood-IF, are

cially low-income and other vulnerable communities.”

critical partners in the ISE’s new 18-month MHIA project to be

Todman and the team began developing the MHIA after the

announced this spring. (continued on page 21)

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By the Numbers

The Englewood Community

17percent of housing units vacant

19.4 percent of births premature

21.6

percent of households on public assistance

17.3

percent of children screened with elevated lead levels

22.4

percent of residents unemployed

$19,247 median household income

*Sources: 2000 U.S. Census data, Metropolitan Chicago Information Center analysis of U.S. Census microdata, Chicago Department of Public Health Community Area Health Inventory 20


Transforming the System

also at the top of the priority list.

The first step of the MHIA process is screening potential

Once a policy proposal has been selected for assessment,

legislation and policies for analysis. The ISE team has reviewed

the researchers will determine the scope of health impacts to

a range of ideas: from an ordinance that would increase the

assess and create a work plan for analysis. The assessment

use of city funds for affordable housing, to a proposal lowering

itself will profile the community’s current mental health condi-

the age of gun ownership to 18, to a proposed increase in the

tions and evaluate the policy’s potential impacts, positive and

minimum wage, to abolishing the open admissions policy at

negative, on the collective mental health and well-being of the

Chicago’s public colleges.

Englewood community.

Englewood representatives on the MHIA team have been

Where relevant, the assessment may suggest strategies to

central to the screening process, identifying the most salient

manage any adverse impacts or amplify any positive impacts

community issues.

the policy might have on community mental health. Findings

“Guns, violence, and jobs—those are the issues that matter,”

will be shared through a final report. How legislators’ and policy

said Diahann Sinclair, who serves on the board of Teamwork

makers’ ultimate decisions eventually affect the community’s

Englewood, a leading community development body in the

mental health will be evaluated and monitored over time.

neighborhood and a partner in the MHIA project. Housing is

MHIA team member Begum Verjee, Ed.D., Program Director

The assessment will profile the community’s current mental health conditions and evaluate the policy’s potential impacts, positive and negative, on the collective mental health and well-being of the Englewood community. 21 SUmmer 2011 gemeinschaftsgefÜhl


for the Adler School’s M.A. in Community Psychology Program in Vancouver, says, “A lot of community programming is just putting Band-Aids® on wounds rather than looking at how systemic issues could be transformed through policy changes. I’m really excited to look at the transformative processes rather than just offer Band-Aid treatments.” ®

Lynn Todman, Ph.D. Executive Director, ISE MHIA Project Leader

Todman says, “We’re excited to be advancing HIA practice in this way. The MHIA also is a perfect example of what drives the faculty and staff of our institute and the Adler School as a whole: advocacy, community engagement, and practice and intellectual innovation that are directed toward creating a society in which everyone has access to basic rights, resources, and opportunities.”

Leading foundations: MHIA is ‘critical opportunity’

Pictured below: Jean Carter-Hill Community Garden, Nicholson Technology Academy in Englewood

The leading support from two significant foundation partners is enabling development of the groundbreaking Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) project through the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School. In January, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced a $250,000 grant to support the project “as a critical opportunity to improve people’s health beyond the healthcare system—in the communities where people live, work, and play.” As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted solely to public health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supports projects aligned with its mission to improve the health and health care of all Americans, and its goal to help society transform itself for the better. Weeks later, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation awarded $150,000 to the Adler School to further support the MHIA project. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, established in 1940, supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Its grants are concentrated in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and southern Africa. “These grants acknowledge the significance of our work and its implications for the mental health and well-being of residents in disadvantaged communities,” says Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute on Social Exclusion and MHIA project leader. “The Adler School is uniquely qualified to undertake this work because everything we do, like the MHIA, occurs at the intersection between social issues and psychology.” 22


The Global View

1 2

3

Adler School faculty and alumni are engaged throughout the world. 1 USA (Massachusetts): Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute on Social Exclusion, delivers a webinar series this summer through the Harvard Graduate School of Education for state superintendents of education, Harvard Graduate School partners, and key program stakeholders on how educators can apply the social exclusion framework guiding system and structural change in public education. 2 USA (Washington, D.C.): Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D., President of the Adler School, participated April 5 in “Effective alcohol and other drug abuse and violence (AODV) prevention programs and strategies on college campuses for LGBT students,” hosted by the U.S. Department of Education Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention. The expert panel was a historic first meeting convened by the U.S. government to make higher education

4 Rwanda: In collaboration with Heartland Alliance for Human

more safe and inclusive for LGBTQ students. Crossman also

Needs & Human Rights, the Chicago campus hosted a two-

spoke in March on the Amercian Council on Education’s first-

week visit by Rwandan clinical psychologist Eugene Rutem-

ever panel on LGBTQ issues at its annual conference.

besa. Rutembesa came to the School during the fall to learn

3 Puerto Rico: Adler School Core Faculty Joe Troiani, Ph.D.,

about its graduate programs and trauma concentration, as

presented on military psychology clinical practice and need,

well as experience its community engagement through Com-

and Maria Vannucci, Ph.D., was selected for poster

munity Service Practicum and clinical programs.

presentation on a model for post-doctoral training, at the

5 Ethiopia: Debra Paskind, M.A., ATR-BC, LCPC, Core Faculty

National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional

in Art Therapy, travels with art therapy students this summer

Psychology (NCSPP) mid-winter conference in San Juan in

to Hwassa and Dilla, Ethiopia, to provide services and training

January. Wendy Paszkiewicz, Psy.D., Associate Vice President

through a pilot program with Heartland Alliance and its local

for Academic Affairs, serves as NCSPP president-elect.

partner organization. Expected activities include working with

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8 9

5 7

4

6

children and women in a shelter, facilitating self-help group

with global scholars that have included guests from Rwanda

meetings, and providing staff development including training

and South Africa, and opportunities for students to engage in

for local counselors and paraprofessionals in therapeutic uses

academic work and community service in Costa Rica, Ethiopia,

of art to enhance self esteem, improve communication skills,

and other countries.

and foster improved interpersonal skills. 6 South Africa: Joshua Ndlela, intern psychologist at Nelson

8 India: Inquiries from Indian students have more than tripled in the last year amid growing international student interest in

Mandela Metropolitan University, came to the Adler School

attending the Adler School. As of April 15, the School fielded

Chicago campus as part of a Ford Foundation scholarship dur-

inquiries from nearly 1,200 international students, compared

ing the fall to experience Community Psychology classes, ob-

with 528 in 2010. So far this year, students have applied to the

serve faculty and student working with community partners in

Adler School from 23 countries.

the field, and lead discussion groups on work in South Africa.

9 Thailand: Art Therapy faculty of the Adler School in the fall

7 Sri Lanka: In February, Martha Casazza, Ed.D., Vice President

provided training for faculty of Srinakharinwirot University

for Academic Affairs, and Lynn Todman, Ph.D., assisted a

in Bangkok in areas of art therapy leading to preparation for

team from Heartland Alliance working with its rehabilitation

practicum experiences. During their Chicago stay, the Thai

program for former child soldiers in war-ravaged Sri Lanka.

faculty took part in intensive study and co-curricular experi-

In advancing international programming to extend the Adler

ences including art therapy intervention methods with specific

School’s commitment to social justice practice worldwide,

populations, and art therapy in practice at Adler School practi-

the School is establishing sabbatical for faculty, exchanges

cum sites. 24


OUR ALUMNI: Leading change in the world

A woman pauses for a photo from a Haitian camp where Adler School alumna Jennifer Van Wyck works with residents to rebuild their lives.

Cultivating Hope In December, Jennifer Van Wyck arrived in Haiti to begin a year of providing mental health services in the displaced persons camps outside Port-auPrince. Impoverished communities there continue struggling to rebuild, more than a year after an earthquake devastated the country. More than half of the nation’s 1.5 million people left homeless by the quake remain living in camps. Van Wyck, who earned her master’s in counseling psychology from the Adler School’s Vancouver campus, is one of five co-founders of Phoenix Vision Society (phoenixvision.org). Phoenix Vision’s focus on multi-dimensional trauma healing “coincides with the holistic philosophy so ingrained in the Adler School curriculum,” Van Wyck says. “I really believe in the philosophy of the Adler School; I practice daily the integration of community and social advocacy.”

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Jennifer Van Wyck, Adler School graduate Jennifer Van Wyck, at right

I am working

in three different

arrive, all the children shout my name and run toward me,

internally displaced peoples (IDP) camps. The first one is home

hanging off of me while I walk around the camp. Often when I

to 50,000 people. I am the only mental health worker and work

arrive, people are in my tent waiting for group to start.

there only two days a week.

My work has focused on multi-dimensional healing. In my

I deal mainly with child abuse and rape. I work out of the hos-

regular groups we talk about the effects of life on the residents’

pital, so I see many extreme cases. I also do healing groups for

psyches. We do visualizations to help heal traumatic incidents

Haitian community workers, teens, women with post-traumatic

and the pain of their daily lives. In one group, we all cried when

stress disorder, and one that focuses on positive parenting,

one mother described how her children have to sift through

because physical child abuse is standard here.

garbage piles to find food.

In my free time, I have one-on-one sessions with individuals

The goal is to help create community and support. In a city

with severe cases of trauma. I visit many clients in their homes

that is rife with overpopulation, never have I heard so many

and do family counseling. I’m also implementing a mental health

people saying that they feel alone.

program for the volunteers, because burnout is a common and

At the same time, I have procured and distributed 15 hand-

real problem.

washing stations with water filters, and a semi-regular supply

The second camp I work is in Champs de Mars, the heart of

of soap to address fears of cholera, which thankfully has not

downtown Port-au-Prince and the location of most riots. Living

become a major problem in the camp. I have also organized a

conditions are deplorable.

group to come in and provide cholera education and training.

I actively work with 20 women completing microfinancing

I have started a community garden project. With camp

education that we provide in collaboration with another organiza- leaders, we have developed a system supplying the produce to tion. Our main focus is relocation, microfinancing, and healing

the poorest in the camp. With the help of an agricultural expert

from trauma and daily re-traumatization, to enable the women

we are working on creating an irrigation system.

to successfully maintain a small business. They are the poorest

In a single year, the people of Haiti have braved an earth-

of the poor, and lack energy, motivation, and commitment, but

quake and endured a cholera outbreak, hurricanes, and violent

we are making progress. I’m currently creating a microfinancing

elections. They struggle daily with no jobs, living in tents with

protocol, and we disburse our first loans within the month. We

nothing to protect them or give them a sense of safety.

will then start to relocate the women to a safer area, based on a

There is much to be done. But in three months, we have

protocol I’m creating with another non-governmental organiza-

cultivated hope in people’s hearts. We have empowered

tion (NGO).

communities. We have approached healing from a variety of

The last IDP camp where I work is just outside Port-au-Prince. different angles, and assisted people in processing their grief The president here is very motivated to improve living conditions.

and starting over.

Right now, the people have no water, food, or electricity.

The strength of these incredible people has understandably

People are incredibly friendly and welcoming. Whenever I

been shaken. Our vision is to heal and repair it. 26


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