Think Don't Squeeze: To End Violence in America
To end the spiral of trauma in our communities we must change the way we develop solutions to stop and prevent violence. We have chosen to develop solutions to end violence using the principles of Design Thinking. We will empathize and step inside the minds of those who would resort to a violent act as well as those who have been a victim of violence. We will understand as fully as possible the consistent patterns of violence which impact our society. We will define and recognize violence in it's simplest forms, from taking the life of another through a physical act, to the more complex forms such as neglect. We will develop divergent ideas and provocative life models using creativity, data, intuition and research. We will rapidly prototype concepts and solutions to inform long range planning initiatives, inspire innovation in public safety and create a future our next generation will be proud of.
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- I help people achieve work life integrity which means to live and work according to your unique defined values.
- I spent a week…
- Where the rising cost of living and the increased competition for employement has spelled disaster for many families. And when one family is displaced it puts a crunch not only on that family, but often that family is broken up and the burden is spread across several other households until again, the displacement occurs. And we end up with the most extreme youth homelessness problem in the country.
- We also found solutions depicting the problem of officer involved shootings of black people. These mapped data solutions are incredible for communicating the impact and gravity of the problem. But what is there for us to do to fully understand the problem?
- We have to ask ourselves who is impacted and how. This illustration depicts the actor as the center of the violence… Whether they are performing violence by being emotionally or physically abusive or by doing nothing resulting in neglect – the violence of silence. And a layer beyond that is the injured, and their associations. Whether it’s a starving person with no food, a person who was the victim of a brutal attack, or someone who witnessed the trauma, even drug use, or a football player receiving a concussion... Or a homeless person on the street. And a layer outside that are the responders, the community, the culture and the memes... The stories that go beyond that person to make it onto the news. The little boy in Syria.
- And lastly for understanding we must spend time with root cause analysis is critical to the success of business, but social services don’t. For example prison