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1/ For our first #FellowsFriday of #BlackHistoryMonth, we're celebrating Dr. @wendyruns, 2018 Ascend Fellow!
With @childmuseums, she leads place-based work in her hometown of Cincinnati to foster #racialequity w/ families through #TruthandReconciliation: ascend.aspeninstitute.org/four-outstandi…
With @childmuseums, she leads place-based work in her hometown of Cincinnati to foster #racialequity w/ families through #TruthandReconciliation: ascend.aspeninstitute.org/four-outstandi…
2/ As Director of @gwpublichealth’s @resilnation, Dr. @wendyruns is a champion of the national movement to address the root causes of childhood trauma, foster equity, and build community resilience. Read more about @ResilNation here: ccr.publichealth.gwu.edu
3/ Last month, Dr. @wendyruns & @resilnation premiered their first documentary, "Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation: Cincinnati" to unpack the history of #structuralracism in Black communities and share the narrative on #HowWeHeal:
#FellowsFriday!
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director, @ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl& systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director, @ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl& systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
What would happen if we designed society to make resources easy for everyone to get?
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
⚠️Harmful narratives harm people.
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
Be a part of the change:
sharedprosperity.ideas42.org/narrative-chan…
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
Be a part of the change:
sharedprosperity.ideas42.org/narrative-chan…
#FellowsFriday!
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director,@ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl & systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
Meet @anthony_barrows,#AscendFellow & managing director,@ideas42, an org using #behavioralscience to help ppl & systems be centered in equity. Anthony asks big Qs abt implicit & explicit bias to drive econ.& social justice.
Read🧵abt his values driving his work.⬇️
What would happen if we designed society to make resources easy for everyone to get?
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
@anthony_barrows tells his own story & talks abt the uncontrollable life lotteries (birth, looks, etc.) & untapped potential of a world founded on universal deservedness.
⚠️Harmful narratives harm people.
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
Be a part of the change: sharedprosperity.ideas42.org/narrative-chan…
Central to @anthony_barrows & @ideas42's work is changing false poverty narratives to shift support for effective social policies and programs that actually address poverty’s root causes.
Be a part of the change: sharedprosperity.ideas42.org/narrative-chan…
It’s #FellowsFriday! Meet Ascend Fellow Georgia Mjartan, Exec. Director of @SCFirstSteps, a state agency & nonprofit committed to #2Gen #earlyedu programming that sets SC’s children & families up for success. Read about her leadership & values that drive her work in the thread.⬇️
+1 million SC children & parents, that’s how far @SCFirstSteps reaches.
Georgia explains how this state agency & 501(c)3 works at the community level - centering the voices of families and seeing each child w/ limitless potential - and also at scale. vimeo.com/373203874
Georgia explains how this state agency & 501(c)3 works at the community level - centering the voices of families and seeing each child w/ limitless potential - and also at scale. vimeo.com/373203874
🩺 Health concerns
🧑🍼Child care costs & availability
🗓️ Shifting work schedules
COVID-19 has magnified strains felt by #childcare workers & families. See how Georgia, ED of SC’s Early Childhood Advis. Council, took charge to support this vulnerable system.
ascend.aspeninstitute.org/child-care-is-…
🧑🍼Child care costs & availability
🗓️ Shifting work schedules
COVID-19 has magnified strains felt by #childcare workers & families. See how Georgia, ED of SC’s Early Childhood Advis. Council, took charge to support this vulnerable system.
ascend.aspeninstitute.org/child-care-is-…
To kick off #FellowsFriday, meet Ascend Fellow Dr. Wendy Ellis (@wendyruns), Director of Center for Community Resilience (@ResilNation) at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University (@GWpublichealth)!
Dr. Ellis is growing a resilience movement to address inequities that propel social & health disparities often experienced by low-income families & communities of color, which are often passed from one generation to the next.
Read about @ResilNation here:
ccr.publichealth.gwu.edu/news-and-publi…
Read about @ResilNation here:
ccr.publichealth.gwu.edu/news-and-publi…
The #2Gen approach takes a racial & gender lens to ensure health, wellbeing, & equitable access to support children and families.
📑"State of the Field" pg. 27, presents Dr. Ellis's innovative work modeling how to put this principle into practice. ascend.aspeninstitute.org/state-of-the-f…
📑"State of the Field" pg. 27, presents Dr. Ellis's innovative work modeling how to put this principle into practice. ascend.aspeninstitute.org/state-of-the-f…
1/10 Our #CRISPresearch team worked w/ @polisiupui to analyze the @uwci's Great Families 2020 initiative. #GF2020 uses a #2Gen approach to help parents/caregivers & their young children.
Read the thread below for more findings, and find all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
Read the thread below for more findings, and find all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
2/10 The analysis of the #GF2020 program has spanned the past five years. In that time, we found that the program served 734 families in five Indianapolis neighborhoods. Those families were made up of 789 adults and 1,121 children.
Read all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
Read all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
3/10 In our #GF2020 initiative analysis, we took a closer look at the 789 adult participants. Their median household income was about $10,000/year. The vast majority were women, and their median age was 29 years old.
Read all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
Read all 3 briefs at bit.ly/3u53yUC
There are so many impactful organizations #hiring for important jobs in the #ECE world right now! If you're looking for your next professional opportunity, here's a thread of a few I would recommend to you. (1 of 5)
Lead a state early childhood office! @CO_CDHS is #Hiring for Director of the Office of Early Childhood within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) (2 of 5) governmentjobs.com/careers/colora…
.@CAPEarlyEd is #Hiring for a Director, Early Childhood Policy (3 of 5): americanprogress.org/about/jobs/488…
