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Healthy Communities

Routinizing the Extraordinary

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2013 | Impact
Read More: Healthy Communities, Community, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Health, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Community Development, Purpose Built Communities, Impact News
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D.

As long as where you live predicts how long and how well you live -- regardless of how hard you work to get ahead -- new approaches must focus on strategies that have proven to build healthier and stronger communities. This is how we can make every community extraordinary.

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Implications from Aurora

Larry_Cohen | Posted 09.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mass Murder, Mental Health, Mental Health Issues, Gun Control, Colorado, Healthy Communities, Aurora Shooting 2012, Aurora Shooting, Preventing Violence, Politics News
Larry_Cohen

In a sense, we suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder on a national scale, but do nothing to heal as a society or to prevent these killings from happening again. We have become a traumatized country, paralyzed by norms and values that result in condoning violence.

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