My current research finds

Since I can't really keep up with all the awesome stuff I find when I'm researching or casually reading, I've made a blog to capture it all. You'll find that I research a lot about the intersection of mental health/illness and the criminal justice...

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⬅️ nerd

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Imposter syndrome

Totally feeling imposter syndrome to the point of inactivity and fear of failure. I feel like this is just too much and my papers won't be acceptable.

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Found out about this new project at Duke from an email from a sociology professor.

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Can someone seriously spare $10 and get this for me? From excerpts I’ve read, I honestly think this would be the one book to help me understand and heal from trauma and PTSD. PayPal: mrosborn1 at gmail ♥️

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One in every four Americans experiences mental illness, and lack of police understanding can lead to tragedy. Here’s what could happen if we were all trained to deal with depression and anxiety.

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A framework for trauma-informed neighborhood recovery Troy Harden, Ed.D., LCSW University of Memphis The Mid-South Family and Community Empowerment Institute

When people discover what they have, they find power.

When people join together in connections and relationships they build power.

When people become more productive together, they exercise their power to address problems and realize dreams.

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Lost In the Margins (1/26/16): There’s something foul happening in Florida right now (what’s new). Multiple prisons and “treatment facilities” are currently under federal investigation for abuse and negligence. One of key stories driving calls for further scrutiny is that of Darren Rainey. “A 50-year-old mentally ill inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution, Rainey was pulled into the locked shower by prison guards as punishment after defecating in his cell and refusing to clean it up, said the fellow inmate, who worked as an orderly. He was left there unattended for more than an hour as the narrow chamber filled with steam and water. When guards finally checked on prisoner 060954, he was on his back and dead. His skin was so burned that it had shriveled from his body, a condition referred to as slippage, according to a medical document involving the death.” Adding insult to basic intelligence, the medical examiner in the case (who took nearly three years to finalize his findings) is now ruling the death accidental. They also claimed that there were no visible burns, despite multiple reports (including the one that the correctional officers in charge filed) to the contrary. This is shaping up to be a cover-up of massive proportions, and sadly, it is all too common of the experience those suffering from mental illness face in the criminal “justice” system. Darren Rainey’s story has gotten very little press outside of Florida. Please help uplift his life and story. He deserved so much better than this. Rest in Power. #staywoke #farfromover

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Graffiti Tutorials: Wheat Pasting

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Using photovoice in community projects, participatory action research, and grassroots organizing is a great way to have people speak and share their stories through multiple formats. I would seriously consider doing a photovoice project if anyone were interested.

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Photovoice is a ground-breaking approach to participatory action research. In recent years, PWHCE has learned a great deal about photovoice. We have learned about the theory and research methods of photovoice and we have learned how to work with community groups to carry out photovoice projects in practice. We have learned that, through photovoice, marginalized community members are empowered to share their words and photographs as a way to reach decision-makers and implement positive change in their home communities. We have learned that marginalized individuals, community workers and advocates, community groups and researchers alike are interested and eager to learn more about photovoice as a creative tool for health promotion and social change.

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Sample Size and Saturation in PhD Studies Using Qualitative Interviews

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Description Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. "Just for self-defense," King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend’s Montgomery, Alabama, home as "an arsenal." Like King, many ostensibly "nonviolent" civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history. In This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb Jr. recovers this history, describing the vital role that armed self-defense has played in the survival and liberation of black communities. Drawing on his experiences in the civil rights movement and giving voice to its participants, Cobb lays bare the paradoxical relationship between the nonviolent civil rights struggle and the long history and importance of African Americans taking up arms to defend themselves against white supremacist violence. About The Author(s) Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and has taught at Brown University. An award-winning journalist, he is an inductee of the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. Cobb lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

I want to read this. Apparently I can get it for 30% discount here with the code P16COBB. I don’t have the funds though :( The 2014 version is available at my university’s library, though.

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This book looks like something I need to get my hands on.

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Autistic Hoya: You want real change to stop gun violence?

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Excited to check this out