A.D.D. & Loving It?!
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A.D.D. and Loving It
ADD & Loving It?! is a ground-breaking blend of humor, hope, and science that dispels the myths about a controversial disorder – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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A.D.D. and Loving It ?!
Actor Patrick McKenna is after the truth. “Everything you think you know about ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is wrong.”
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A.D.D. and Loving It!
Actor Patrick McKenna is after the truth. “Everything you think you know about ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is wrong.”
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A.D.D. and Loving It!
Actor Patrick McKenna is after the truth. “Everything you think you know about ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is wrong.”
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A.D.D. and Loving It!
Actor Patrick McKenna is after the truth. “Everything you think you know about ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is wrong.”
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A.D.D. and Loving It!
Actor Patrick McKenna is after the truth. “Everything you think you know about ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is wrong.”
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Abraham & Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
American Experience Episode One – The story of the Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln’s childhoods — his in a remote backwoods log cabin, hers in a wealthy Kentucky home — describes their courtship. Mary sets her heart on the raw, socially awkward Lincoln, saying later: “He’ll be President of the United States one day. If I had not thought so I never would have married him.”
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Advancing Women: Central Exchange’s Ellen D’Amato
Picture in your mind for a moment one of our area business leaders. Picture in your mind the head of one of our area corporations. Likely, you are not picturing a woman. That’s because Kansas City’s companies are almost exclusively led by men…and not just at the top. A survey in 2008 finds that a full third of Kansas City’s top 39 public companies didn’t claim a single woman among their top management teams or in their boardrooms. More than half had no women on their boards at all. And 60 percent had no women in any executive positions within their companies.
Central Exchange President and CEO Ellen D’Amato sits down with Nick Haines to talk about her organization’s mission to provide opportunities for professional women to connect and discuss win|win, a campaign to encourage the professional advancement of women with the goal of having women represent 1 in 5 board members and executive officers in area companies by 2015.
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Aim4Peace: The KC Interrupters
To interrupt violence in Kansas City, Aim4Peace believes that you must have your doctorate in “Streetology.” This means that with training and a research-based approach, the best people to intervene and prevent violent crime are those who were once the perpetrators.
This method of violence prevention is profiled in the Frontline documentary The Interrupters, which aired on KCPT on February 14, 2012. The film follows the courageous work of the CeaseFire violence prevention project, which treats the violence plaguing some of Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods like an infectious disease. The Interrupters illustrates that much like a major health epidemic, shootings and retaliatory violence can spread through a community infectiously.
In many US cities, violence is considered a major public health issue for urban areas where homicide is a leading cause of death and portions of the population even expect that they will die as a result of violent crime.
CeaseFire uses the following three-pronged approach, which is akin to public health methods of controlling diseases:
- Identification & detection
- Interruption, Intervention, & risk reduction
- Changing behavior and norms
Using this public health approach, CeaseFire has effectively been able to reduce the number of homicides and shootings in several of Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods. Kansas City’s Aim4Peace, which was founded in 2008, uses the CeaseFire model and focuses its efforts on the approximately 30 square-mile area of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department’s East Patrol. For the past 20 years the East Patrol has had the highest number of violent crimes, drive-by shootings and homicides in the city. Currently Aim4Peace has five mediators, who work directly to interrupt violence. Last November, Aim4Peace lost one of their own when, according to an article in the Kansas City Star, Aim4Peace mediator Terrance Jackson was gunned down while working.
Aside from Chicago and Kansas City, the only other city with a violence prevention group using the CeaseFire approach is Safe Streets project in Baltimore.
Learn more about Aim4Peace, volunteer opportunities and sign a commitment to peace on their website.
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- Aim4Peace mediator Terrance Jackson near a police crime scene area. Jackson was killed in November of 2011 while on duty.
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- Aim4Peace mediator Jamal Shakur at a street corner preparing to pass out Aim4Peace brochures and giveaway items.
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- Violence Prevention Supervisor Rashid Junaid reviews a map of one of the “zones” Aim4Peace targets for violence prevention.
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- Violence Prevention Supervisor Rashid Junaid and two Street Intervention Workers Salahuddin- Abdul-Waali and Terrance Jackson head out of the Aim4Peace offices to get ready to go work in the “dirty thirties” neighborhood area. Jackson was killed in November 2011 while on duty.
