Rehabilitation

Wounded Vets Design T-Shirts and Boots

Tyler Way | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Creativity, Graphic Designers, Iraq Veterans, Veterans PTSD, Arts, Artprize, Rehabilitation, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Impact News
Tyler Way

The non-profit, non-partisan organization will be hosting five wounded soldiers -- one from each branch of the military -- and five established designers from all over the country to collaborate in an attempt to share each of the wounded soldiers' powerful stories through graphic design.

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Art Helps People Live With Mental Illness

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Arts, Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Mental Illness Stigma, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Arts Mental Health, Arts Therapy, Art Therapy, Art Mental Health, Healthy Living News
Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W.

Being with so many like-minded people and having a sense of camaraderie are clearly important dimensions of the experience for these artists. It's being in a place without stigma, where people believe in themselves and their abilities.

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A Month of Rebuilding, a Month of Service

Gary A. Officer | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Long Island, Community Service, Volunteering, Service, Homeowners, Rehabilitation, Safe-and-Healthy-Housing, Rebuilding Together, Affordable Housing, Impact News
Gary A. Officer

As we celebrate National Rebuilding Month, we are reminded of the crucial role that service plays, in varying forms, throughout our organization and our mission to provide everyone a safe and healthy home.

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Alexander Eichler

Executives In Rehab Won't Quit This Habit

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Drug Addiction, Employee Rehab, U.S. Economy, Wall Street Rehab, Drug Treatment, Addiction, Executive Rehab, Alcohol Addiction, Corporate Rehab, Rehab, Unplugging, Addiction Treatment, Video, Wall Street, Weak Economy, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholism, Treatment, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Poor Economy, Rehabilitation, Plugged In, Drug Rehab, Business News

When Natalie was in rehab last year, she noticed a lot of people on the phone. Many of the other patients at Passages Malibu -- the California trea...

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Is Michael Graves the James Dyson of Healthcare?

Rosina Samadani | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Wounded Warrior, Mobility, Dyson Vacuum, Architecture, Design, Target, Innovation, Michael Graves, Target Stores, Patients, Charles Osgood, Social Media Week NY, Bacterial-Meningitis, Cbs, Saatchi and Saatchi, Velcro, Social Media, Richard-H-Driehaus-Prize, Social Media Week, Stryker, Hospitals, Rehabilitation, Healthcare, James Dyson, Business News
Rosina Samadani

Michael Graves has noticed the deficit in understanding in the design of hospital rooms -- including layout, bathrooms, and even décor, and the tremendous need in assistive devices for patients.

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She was an inmate. I was a suburbanite. We were never supposed to be friends.

Joan Gelman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Governor David Paterson, Rehabilitation, Judy Clark, Clemency, Iowa Writer's Workshop, Harriet Clark, Adversity, Stuyvesant High School, Inspiration, Female Friendship, Prison System, My Story, Women News
Joan Gelman

She was an inmate. I was a suburbanite. We were never supposed to be friends.

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Artist Gets Help From An Unlikely Source

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Tate Modern, Prison, Prison-Rehabilitation, Young British Artists, Alighiero E Boetti, Gavin Turk, Prisons, Rehabilitation, Ben Brown Fine Arts, UK Culture, Gavin & Turk, Fine Cell Work, UK Arts, Video, Arts News

Usually Gavin Turk inserts himself into his work, combining iconography with his own likeness, but for his latest series, the Young British Artist has...

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Simon Says

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Recovery, Senior Citizens, Import-Export, Illness, Thanksgiving, Garment District, Rehabilitation, Businessman, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Jack Schimmelman

I never knew Mr. Simon's first name. It seemed to me that after 82 years of building a life, a business through sheer force of will, Mr. Simon was an appropriate moniker.

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Prostitution, Recovery And The WINGS Court

Gapers Block | Shipping Included | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Cook County Jail, Drug Addiction, Prostitution, Wings, Rehabilitation, Chicago Impact, Chicago News

"Nina" smoked crack and sold sex on Chicago's South Side for 33 years, racking up dozens of arrests, spending years in prison and losing custody of he...

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Will Governor Cuomo Show Compassion This Holiday Season and Grant Clemencies?

Anthony Papa | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Mercy, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Rehabilitation, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Clemency, New York News
Anthony Papa

To be sentenced under unjust laws to a tremendous amount of time is unconscionable. I know because it happened to me. Now I am asking Governor Cuomo to show compassion.

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D.C.'s Juvenile Justice System Sees Real Change

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Campaign for Youth Justice, Washington D.C. Washington DC, Policy Reform, New Beginnings Youth Development Center, DC Lawyers for Youth, Juvenile Justice, Youth Justice, Reform, Daniel Okonkwo, Rehabilitation, Maya Angelou Academy, Youth Incarceration, Oakhill Detention Center, Dcly, Notorious to Notable, Impact News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Sayre Quevedo In Washington D.C., the...

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Incarcerated Men on Rikers Island Cook Thanksgiving Meals For the Hungry

Anthony Papa | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Prison Reform, Random Acts of Kindness, Rehabilitation, Rikers Island, Giving Back, Thanksgiving, Slidepollajax, Impact News
Anthony Papa

This Thanksgiving through an extraordinary program, men on Rikers Island are giving back to the city by cooking turkeys and fixings for over 800 New Yorkers in need.

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Yoga Helps Mexican Inmates Find Peace, Curbs Violence

Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Yoga, Video, Mexico City, Prison, Mexico, Jail, Yoga Health, Juvenile Dentention, Rehabilitation, Mexico Prisons, Benefits of Yoga, Impact News

At one Mexico City juvenile detention center, inmates are finding inner peace through an unlikely practice in a jail cell: yoga. Prison wardens re...

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Prisoners Finding Their Voices Through Poetry and Prose: The 2011 PEN Writing Benefit Reading

Anthony Papa | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Prison Reform, Literature, Philanthropy, Prisons, Creative Writing, Rehabilitation, Poetry, Writing, Impact News
Anthony Papa

People often ask me where I got my start as a writer and where I learned my craft. When I tell them that I honed my writing skills in prison from a maverick writer, they do a double take.

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New Charge for Cameron Douglas: Judge Shocked That Drugs Are Available in Prison

Anthony Papa | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: War on Drugs, Rehabilitation, Cameron Douglas, Prison, Celebrity Kids, Arrest, Michael Douglas, Crime News
Anthony Papa

Cameron did what many drug-addicted prisoners do when they are imprisoned. They seek to get high to escape the living hell they are in, even if it means breaking the law.

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Restorative Justice And The Economy Of Grace

Derek Flood | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Restorative Justice, Nonviolence, Amish School Shooting, Grace, Mercy and Justice, Rehabilitation, Forgiveness, Retributive Justice, Emotional Intelligence, Compassion, Christianity, Grace vs. Justice, Christian Justice, Religion News
Derek Flood

Theologians have traditionally spoken of a conflict between justice and grace: justice is about there being consequences for wrong action and grace is about leniency.

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WATCH: Wounded War Veterans Find Healing And Support In 'Ride 2 Recovery'

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Video, Iraq Veterans, Wounded Soldiers, Recovery, Veterans PTSD, Ride 2 Recovery, Bicycling, Rehabilitation, Ptsd, Cycling, Veterans, Impact News

When U.S. Army Sergeant Angel Neal was deemed unfit for duty before her intended third tour in Iraq, she felt lost, CBSNews.com reports. But Neal,...

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Forty Years After: The Attica Prison Uprising

Anthony Papa | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Nelson Rockefeller, Riverside Church, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison, Attica, Rehabilitation, Cornel West, Attica Is All of US, New York News
Anthony Papa

The uprising at Attica was the start of a movement that sought to bring to light the horrible conditions of imprisonment. Surprisingly many of the horrid conditions that existed back then still plague the prison system today.

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WATCH: 'Prostitution: Leaving The Life' Tackles Problems Facing Cook County Sex Workers

The Huffington Post | Jen Sabella | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, Prostitution Leaving the Life, Prostitution Chicago, Own, Prostitution, Video, Sex Abuse, Rehabilitation, Chicago Impact, Oprah Winfrey Network, Tom Dart, Prostitution Cook County, Cook County Jail, Chicago News

For about 20,000 women in the Chicagoland area, prostitution is a way of life. Over the years, many of these women are arrested and locked up briefly,...

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Memorial Day: A Celebration of our Heroes at Home

Gary A. Officer | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Home Modification, Memorial Day, Heroes, Heroes at Home, Rebuilding, Rehabilitation, September 11th, Veterans, Impact News
Gary A. Officer

As we contemplate the courage of our fallen heroes, let us also pay homage to the allegiance of our enlisted men and women and our veteran community.

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Would You Get the Same Care as Gabrielle Giffords?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Gabrielle Giffords Recovery, Disabilities, Disability, Health Insurance, Rehabilitation, Gabrielle Giffords Rehabilitation, Health Care, Home News
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

The rehabilitation of a person following a stroke or brain injury is an intensive process that can take years and involves numerous people, but the reality is that many people do not get the intensity of care they need.

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'Fresh Start' Program Teaches Men About Culinary Arts and Parenting

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Culinary Arts, Parenting, Rehabilitation, Prison, Rikers Island, Incarcerated Parents, Fresh Start, Impact News
Anthony Papa

The U.S. unemployment rate for formerly incarcerated individuals is 60 percent. For Fresh Start grads, that rate drops to 29 percent at one year after their release.

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It's Time To Talk About It: Everyone Can Do... Just One Thing

Jenni Schaefer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bed, Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, Recovery, Unhealthy Diet, Destructive Behavior, Eating Disorders, Psychology, Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Overeating, Purge, Rehab, Binge Eating, Jenni Schaefer, Mental Illness, Anorexia, Dieting, Neda, Binge, Hello Me, Ed, Life Without Ed, Goodbye Ed, Rehabilitation, Bulimia, Ednos, Eating Disorder Awareness Week, National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Eating Disorder Awareness, Healthy Living News
Jenni Schaefer

Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. They don't discriminate by size, weight, ethnicity, gender, culture, age, or anything else.

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Saving Lives: Contest to Create Jobs for the Formerly Incarcerated

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Small Business, Nyc, Recidivism, Social Entrepreneurship, Prison, Jobs, Rehabilitation, Entrepreneurship, Impact News
Anthony Papa

With more states looking for an economic solution to solve their budgetary problems, more prisoners are being released early from their sentences.

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Reinvention, Part II

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Tony Hayward, Lindsay Lohan, Bankruptcy, Bp, Trust, Trends, Corporate Social Responsibility, Anger, Social Entrepreneurship, Celebrity Spokespeople, Tiger Woods, Trendspotting, Social Value, Bernard Madoff, Climate Change, Rehabilitation, Csr, Brands, Business News
Marian Salzman

This is the seventh in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwid...

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