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Building Resilience State By State
It is gratifying to watch awareness increasing about the importance of incorporating neuroscience-based and resiliency-oriented information into statewide policies, practices,...
Humans at Our Best and Worst: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
We are living in a world of divisiveness that can be depleting or energizing depending on upon who your brain decides is part of “your group.” Do the words “who your brain...
We Need Each Other: Building the Resilience of Systems
We are social creatures. We grow inside another individual and hear the intonation and accents of the people around us before we are even born. We bring our...
What is Health Literacy and Why Do We Need to Know About It?
The term “health literacy” attracted my attention a couple of years ago when I was reading some work by the World Health Organization (WHO). The definition they were using for...
Correction Officer Wellness: A Critical Challenge
I am recently back from giving a presentation on “Stress, Trauma, and Suicide” for the National Symposium on Correctional Worker Health in Saint Louis. The topic is a grim one...
Operation Ceasefire Detroit
It is a sad but true fact that many youth in our largest cities do not expect to live beyond their early twenties. These are youth who are caught up in gang-related dynamics in...
2017 Individual and Institutional Resilience: Start the New Year Right
At Threshold GlobalWorks we are excited about the work that lies ahead in 2017 and are dedicated to making a difference in the United States and globally. In today’s highly...
An Orientation to SRM: 50 minute U.K. interview with Chris Johnston
https://vimeo.com/180006446
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Juvenile Crime
It is encouraging and exciting to see neuroscience research being used in the criminal justice system. If you haven’t read Lawrence Steinberg’s book, Age of Opportunity: Lessons...
The Joys of Collaboration!
This has been a busy time for us at TGW. It is exciting to see how many organizations and communities are expanding their lens to recognize the strengths of individuals and not...
Rwanda: Communities That Heal
The photo shows the President of Rwanda, Paul Kigame, speaking at the Twelfth National Dialogue (called the 2014 Umushyikirano) on 11/11/15. In his remarks he highlighted the...
Posting From Nepal: Building Resilience Through Play and Skills
July 5, 2015 Flying into Kathmandu it is hard at first to see the effect of the earthquake. The city was not at the epicenter of the quake and, although there is damage it does...
Rwanda: Resilience in Action
I returned 2 weeks ago from Rwanda where we have an on-going project focused on the re-entry of genocide perpetrators after prison into their communities. We have developed an...
Threshold GlobalWorks in Nepal
On April 25, 2015 a huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal and was followed by more than 240 aftershocks, one of which was a 7.3 magnitude. The death toll is in the many...
A Neuroscience Lens: Intimate Partner Violence
“Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Justice-involved Women” was the topic of a panel I participated on at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice yesterday. The panelists were...
Essential Lens: Neuroscience and Corrections
Threshold GlobalWorks (TGW) has been developing programs for inmates and corrections officers (COs); programs that help increase the capacity to self-regulate, decrease...
“We can’t solve problems if we use the same kind of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein.
On Sunday January 18, 2015 the New York Times Week in Review had a lead article by Dick Morris, a veteran of the Iraq war diagnosed with PTSD. He was very compelling in...
NYC Federal Reserve Bank Supports Veterans Reintegration
Recently, I was fortunate to participate on a panel at New York City's Federal Reserve Bank in honor of Veterans Day. The bank has had a veterans network made up of employees who...