A family seeking support with housing comes to their local welfare office: How are we going to find them housing when resources are already stripped? A child presenting at a psychiatric emergency ward when the hospital is already overfilled due to COVID-19 cases – What disposition does he need? It is crises like these which […]
Making a Basic Needs Profile
I have had every intention of starting a regular “vlog” series for years, yet have only posted one. I’ve even made a few more than that, but I think I’m somehow screen shy, so have often let them stay tucked away in the recesses of my hard drive. Well, with the Covid-19 crisis, I’ve been […]
Public Health Interventions with Data – Homicide Rates
CDR’s nonprofit mission is to help the development of a data-driven human services system. One way we accomplish this end, is by working to educate communities on publicly available data, and how monitoring it can help them address community problems. Today I am going to talk about data relevant to the debates around policing of […]
Numbers with Faces
One of the indicators that we track here regularly at CDR, is gun violence. Thus, it was already a hard morning, when I woke up to learn the high levels of gun violence in Atlanta this last weekend. However, it has become truly devastating, as I learned that one number in Atlanta’s weekend gun death total, […]
Traditions and Rituals Matter: Thinking Through Our Clients’ Deepest Needs
When President Trump declared that he expected social distancing policies to relax “by Easter,” many of us in public health rightly guffawed. The rate at which coronavirus spreads, clearly showed that Easter is exactly when we need to be socially distancing most aggressively. However, the President’s proclamation was a very good illustration of one of […]