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Building Community

5 Things That Help Increase Our Access to Safety and a Sense of Community

Young Nation | Posted 03.25.2013 | Detroit
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Young Nation

Opening your home or other private space is an easy way to strengthen your bonds with people you trust and care for simply by spending time together. At the same time it helps to build community.

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Growing Bolder: Like Me, Only Better

Marc Middleton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Marc Middleton

Don't think you're alone. You're not. There is a community of people just like you. Find it, join it and seek out those who are successfully doing what you want to do. Find out why they're like you, only better.

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$#*! My Dad Says: Life Lessons From Another Type of American Father

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Kate Kelly

My father -- probably like many of your fathers -- taught life lessons by good example. He died in 2002, but the lessons I learned are so clearly with me it is as if I had spoken to him yesterday. Here are some of the more memorable things he shared.

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Community and Faith: Rebuilding Brownsville, Brooklyn

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Faith is a precious thing. Faith is a conviction that a person, concept or activity can be trusted to do what it says it will do. Trust is the cornerstone of the Brownsville rec center.

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Oxytocin Helps Us Move From Tribe to Community

Susan Kuchinskas | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Susan Kuchinskas

Herein lies the key to becoming a more trusting, more unified society: Practice. We will need to exercise our brains to approach each other with openness to connection.

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Building Community at the New Kids on the Block Reunion Show

Alyssa Best | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Alyssa Best

My love for New Kids On The Block translated into a powerful feminist experience and brought together an amazing community of women all over again.

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