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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

While it is rarely acknowledged, parents undergo their own developmental changes alongside their children. Unfortunately, we dont recognize their process in the same ways we recognize that of the children they support.

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How International Adoption Is Failing Children

NonProfit Quarterly

As news outlets and social media feeds are flooded with endless images of violence against children, some in the Global North have expressed a desire to adopt Palestinian children to give them a chance at a better life. Despite this decrease, the complications that come with international adoption remain.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. What is climate psychology? That’s one big part of what climate psychology does. “

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What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Photo by Los Muertos Crew on pexels.com On May 1, 2023, a Cessna plane took off from the tiny Amazonian town of Araracuara in Colombia, carrying seven passengers: the pilot, four children, their mother, and another adult. But the four children—Lesly (13), Soleiny (9), Tien Noriel (4), and Cristin (1)—survived.

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Organizing White Men for Social Justice: Let’s Build

NonProfit Quarterly

1 For the past 35 years, my focus has been on building up white antiracist vision, culture, strategy, leadership, and organization in white communities. In particular, the right positions itself as the political and cultural expression of white men. And they have been successful.

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Mental Health Advocates Aim to Dismantle Barriers to Care for Latinx Residents

NonProfit Quarterly

This gap is fueled by a series of barriers that include linguistic limitations, higher poverty rates, lack of insurance, the high cost of treatment, the lack of bilingual services, and the lack of training of many mental health professionals to understand Latin American cultures that often discourage accessing mental healthcare.

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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

There are also real psychological barriers to giving as recently uncovered in a report by our colleagues at NCFP and Arabella. Nor have the cultures of these firms been designed with an inclusion and belonging lens for BIPOC or female leaders. Wealth managers and donor advisors need to approach DEI with a broader lens.