Child Welfare Services

My Year at the Shelter

Terra Trevor | Posted 05.01.2012

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Terra Trevor

The year I worked at a group home youth crisis shelter with runaway, homeless and foster youth in transition is strung on a ribbon of memories as if it had been one long unending day.

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Barry Schwartz on Incentives, Education and Making Wise Choices

Rob Kall | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rob Kall

It's important to understand that looking for the best is a self-defeating, misery-making strategy; that we should, in general, be looking for good enough, not the best.

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