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Gayenell Magwood, Ph.D. , a professor in the MUSC College of Nursing, has received more than $3.4 million in funding from the National Institute of

Issue addressed: To develop, implement and evaluate the impact of a short education intervention on the understanding of dementia through visual art by primary school-aged children. Methods: A series of three lessons were developed in consultation with a local schoolteacher and community artists and taught in a local primary school. Stage 2 students (8-10 years old) created an artwork about memory, learned about dementia and adapted their artworks to represent their developing understanding of d...

That the resources we are asking for are not a radical idea. and chris, it should not be radical to invest in what we know works. community based intervention, gun control, direct relational interventions. public health approaches, well funded social services. those are things that actually work. that shouldnt be a radical idea. especially, especially if those funds come from bloated police budgets which continues to be an institution thats not actually giving a good return on that investment. t...

In fact, if crime profession and community support is duncombe rightly, they are complementary. i worry that in a plan like this, these historic levels of investment in hiring more police officers and expanding police budgets will actually undermine the kind of investments that were seeing in community based intervention in the work that people like eric ford and pastor mcbride are doing. they commissioned a study, those organizations commission to study under the coalition lift free, and 68% of...