by Tom Peterson | Dec 9, 2020 | Community Health, Resources
This from Tina Yuen at ChangeLab Solutions: The neighborhoods where we live and work shape our health, resources, and opportunities, but they are not designed to treat every person equitably. We can change these place-based...
by Tom Peterson | Dec 7, 2020 | Community Health, Faith Communities
By Gary Gunderson These United States are always becoming something new, always moving. And if you want to see and understand this dynamic, it helps to get close enough to see it move. Over the past two years, some colleagues and I have...
by Tom Peterson | Dec 2, 2020 | Faith Communities
Dayton, Ohio, takes care of its own By Melanie Raskin Like a lot of American cities, Dayton, Ohio, has problems that create despair, loneliness and hopelessness. But it is also full of bright and shining people turning good ideas into real solutions that...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 25, 2020 | Community Health, Faith Communities
FaithHealth around America In Buffalo, New York, faith-based, community, government and health care leaders join together to effectively respond to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the African American community. By Tom Peterson Rev. George...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 19, 2020 | Positive Deviance
Maybe there are a few oddballs doing something right. And maybe they can point the way for the rest of us. In facing a tough social challenge positive deviance tells us to look for any outliers who may be like everyone else but who found a solution through their...
