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Here are some hard facts: Since the beginning of 2019 there have been 255 mass shootings in the United States. Statistics added on August 5thof this year show that there have been 33,237 shooting incidents resulting in 8,796-gun deaths and 17,480 injuries. We are, by far, the most violent nation in the world. This month […]

Statistics show that in the United States nearly 5% of us have been diagnosed with some type of mental illness. Stats also show that in the US on one night there can be as many as a half million homeless people and nearly 45% of them have some form of mental illness. That’s almost half! […]

A while back, I was walking in downtown Chicago with a friend. It was December, the stores were lit up for Christmas enticing shoppers to come and spend money on shimmering gifts and goodies of all kinds. It was also very, very cold. As we passed what was then Marshall Field’s, I was approached by […]

In our line of work, we sometimes reach a point where we must remind ourselves to “work smarter, not harder.” This point generally comes when we’ve been working with someone who’s exhausted all the usual routes to treatment, refused our best social work advice, and argues their way out of every healing situation we offered, […]

There is a photo going around on the internet that shows a pack of wolves trekking through the wilderness. The view is taken from an airplane, so you can see the entire pack as it makes its way through the frozen, wintry forest path. In the lead are three elderly wolves walking together. Next come […]