While checking my Twitter account the other day, I came upon this interactive video from the United Kingdom.
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Walking the Walk
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Director There are times in life when we are faced with the choice to act on our beliefs or to simply follow the easy path. Robert Frost wrote about the road not taken, and I find myself thinking about the same thing. I am confronted daily with the specter of Flint and Genesee County leading …
Shutting Out the World: Preventing Violence in Flint
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Director The real frustration of the current rate of violence in Flint is that there are so many concerned people working to prevent it. There are active neighborhood groups, collaborations amongst the faith community, a multitude of youth serving organizations meeting together and looking for solutions. Yet with all of this we still can’t seem …
Four Hugs and a Cupcake
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Director For 20 years I labored in the field of youth violence working, as a juvenile caseworker. The work was fulfilling and I believe we were having some positive effects on the youth, however it was clear that the young people we were involved with had developed their lifestyles to a point where it was …
Hands 4 Peace
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Director It seems as a culture we are incredibly adept at using our hands for destructive purposes. We often couch these activities in the cloak of competitiveness, the will to succeed, the survival of the fittest, pulling ourselves up by our boot straps and so on. Taken on face value these are all good things, …
Creating Peaceful Communities
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Director “Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” -Baruch Spinoza Most often public health focuses on prevention. Yet, when it comes to violence we need to look beyond just prevention and develop ideas for creating peaceful communities. In order to …
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