compassion Archive
A critical mistake you can easily make is relying solely on your quick-thinking and natural charm to get you through a job interview. More often than not you’ll be asked increasingly tough questions that will expose your lack of research …
Who Carries it in Foster Care? Daniel Carlisle, FCNI Social WorkerVoice of an FCNI Staff Over the course of the past month, I have given extra thought to the concepts and reality of “foster care”, primarily because May is National …
Won’t it depress people? Isn’t it triggering? Aren’t the topics troubling? Won’t it make people sad or upset? Fear is what I often fight when talking about ACEs — adverse childhood experiences. It’s not my fear though. It’s the fear …
Love. That insurmountable beast of burden that philosophers, poets, and polymaths have toiled to categorize. Too often, we are poised to search for it, rather than seeking to bring it into being.
Dr. Nancy Hardt ______________________ The most important thing I didn’t learn in medical school is about adverse childhood experiences, also known as ACEs. To be sure, if I had understood them then the way I do now, I would have …
Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to perform a trust experiment.
A Family’s Goal is met with Community SupportSarah Davenport, FCNI StaffSupporter Spotlights Gifts come in all shapes and sizes—from extravagant, to handmade, or sentimental and even humorous. While every gift given for the pure joy of its recipient is meaningful, …
Jim Roberts, CEOVoice of our CEO For a long time, our society has clung to the idea that we are somehow hardwired to be selfish. And while there’s no denying this fact, there is now compelling evidence to prove that …
The following article is derived from a talk I was asked to give on moral injury for the VALOR Center at John F. Kennedy University. In this talk, I outline what leads to moral injury and the difficulties moral …
Draped over LaTeesha Pinkney’s white “Gift of Compassion” t-shirt was a long, thin necklace, carefully strung with gold beads and a dozen or so charms. Pinkney made the necklace, hand-picking each charm for some significance or memory it brought to mind. …
