In a partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, staff members from a public school district and an independent school discussed The Children of Willesden Lane.
We have helped resident veterans in a residential treatment program through weekly small groups and periodic large-group “Big Read” discussions of classic short stories.
We helped improve the relationship between the Cleveland Police and the community it serves in the wake of a tragic shooting.
We helped improve the relationship between the Cleveland Police and the community it serves in the wake of a tragic shooting.
We are deeply grateful for the support and enthusiasm of many individual donors and of several foundations and institutions.
"When you are serving a group of people who have been through such emotional and traumatic experiences, it’s hard to expect them to say, ‘My name is so-and-so and this is what happened to me.' But if you give them an opportunity through poetry to say, 'I feel this or I remember that,' they identify those lines with events in their lives. Poetry reaches that vulnerable piece and brings about a healing that other things do not."
