Reforming Juvenile Justice through Comprehensive Community Planning

Comprehensive Community Planning is a model that emphasizes prevention, intervention, community-building, and a reliance on research as the basis for an approach to solving problems of youth crime. The model was tested in three pilot sites, Fort Meyers, FL, Jacksonville, FL, and San Diego County, CA. This publication details the planning process in each of these sites, the lessons learned, and the various benefits to the communities involved

The ADA Amendments Act of 2008

The goal of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was to create a civil rights law protecting people with disabilities from discrimination on the basis of their disabilities. Disability rights advocates in 1990 were victorious in their efforts to open doors for people with disabilities and to change the country\u27s outlook and acceptance of people with disabilities. These advocates believed that the terms of the ADA, based as they were on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, combined with the legislative history of the ADA, would provide clear instructions to the courts that the ADA was intended to provide broad coverage prohibiting discrimination against people with a wide range of physical and mental impairments. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court--with lower courts following in its lead, barricaded the door that the ADA had opened by interpreting the definition of disability in the ADA to create an overly demanding standard for coverage under the law. This article provides an overview of the advocacy effort that has resulted in restoring the original intent of the ADA and destroying the barriers of discrimination that prevent people with disabilities from fully participating in society

Evaluation of a Remote Implementation of the Well-Being Promotion Program with Middle School Students during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic and pivot to emergency remote teaching changed the way in which many students access school-based mental health interventions. Furthermore, the effects of the pandemic heightened distress and decreased life satisfaction amongst many youth, increasing the need for schools to provide targeted mental health supports (Lazarus et al, 2021; Magson et al., 2021). Empirically supported Tier 2 mental health interventions exist (i.e., the Well-Being Promotion Program; Suldo, 2016), but little is known about how these interventions can be adapted and feasibly implemented in remote school contexts. This retrospective case study evaluated the implementation of a remote version of the Well-Being Promotion Program, a targeted positive psychology intervention, with eighth grade students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to (1) to describe the co-design process through which a research-practice partnership modified the WBPP for remote delivery and (2) to explore the implementation strategies that influenced the feasibility of implementing the resulting digital version of the WBPP. The study used qualitative data (e.g., meeting notes, interviews and written feedback from providers, students, and caregivers) and quantitative data (e.g., pre-/post-measures, intervention integrity, attendance) to evaluate the co-design process and the feasibility of the adapted WBPP. Through co-design, the intervention was modified to be facilitated via videoconference, to use digital versions of WBPP materials, to use email to share with caregivers the handouts and a recorded version of the information session, to add additional sessions for data collection, and to adapt language to align with school vernacular. Using reflexive thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006; Braun et al., 2019), themes were constructed from the data to provide insight into the implementation strategies used by the research-practice partnership to influence feasibility. Findings suggest that (a) maintaining the structure of the WBPP, (b) using technology for remote implementation, (c) collaborating through the research-practice partnership, and (d) recognizing the effectiveness of intervention efforts influenced the feasibility of the remote implementation. Lessons learned from this case study suggest that research-practice partnerships can be critical for influencing the feasibility of intervention implementation in local school contexts, especially during novel situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic

Marketing a memory of the world: Magna Carta and the student as producer perspective

From Runnymede in 1215, to parliamentary struggles, across the seas to a fledgling America, then onwards in time to many parts of the globe where it encourages human rights and shapes legal systems, the Magna Carta has been enormously influential. As a consequence, the document has been placed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World register, a process designed to preserve highly significant documentary archive collections. Of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta, one is owned by Lincoln Cathedral of the UK and is on display to the general visitor in Lincoln Castle. This case study provides a critical account of the marketing of this document, arguing that the experiential dimensions of the Magna Carta exhibition are poorly executed. Additionally, as presently constituted, it is postulated that the existing marketing strategy will fail to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta’s signing in 2015 and the planned national celebrations. Evidence for these claims have been drawn mainly from an inquiry led research project conducted by a group of undergraduate marketers and two tutors at Lincoln University, demonstrating the clear value of the “student as producer” approach to learning and research in marketing

Marketing a memory of the world: Magna Carta and the experiential servicescape

Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyse visitor perceptions of the Lincoln Magna Carta exhibition in the context of an experiential servicescape perspective. Design/methodology/approach Data comes from a questionnaire carried out with visitors to the Magna Carta exhibition in Lincoln Castle, UK. The approach was framed by the student as producer perspective, that is about re-engineering the relationship between academics and undergraduate students. Findings Three main problems exist in terms of the servicescape. These are guidance signage, the small, dark inauspicious surroundings of the exhibition itself and the level of visitor interactivity present. Research limitations/implications This is only a small scale project of one Magna Carta exhibition. Research with more visitors would help to further validate the findings and conclusions of this paper and also assist in other representations of the document in other sites. Practical implications Suggestions are made for improvement to a number of experiential servicescape elements. These improved representations also need to be planned for adequately in the new staging of the document, when Lincoln Castle receives planned additional funds from the Heritage Lottery. Social implications This paper draws our attention to the fact that The Magna Carta is a shared part of a global cultural identity, where the marketing of the document represents a great privilege. Originality/value The experiential servicescape framework is used in an original way to critique aspects of the current exhibition and to propose new ideas for representing the Magna Carta. This paper is based on original data that makes a novel contribution to the debate regarding research and learning in higher education

Hacer que los desplazados internos se comprometan en Sri Lanka: el enfoque budista

Una ONG budista de Sri Lanka nos ofrece un ejemplo de cómo las sociedades civiles endógenas confesionales pueden ayudar a movilizar a los desplazados internos a la hora de crear y definir estrategias para su propia protección

Recognizing and Confronting State Subjectivity in Asylum Adjudications

United States law charges America’s asylum officers with providing humanitarian protection for refugees while simultaneously securing the nation from external threats. This mandate requires that asylum officers balance potentially conflicting claims as they seek to ensure just treatment of claimants. This article explores how officers charged with that responsibility can develop a regime-centred subjectivity that often conditions them to view applicants with fraud and security concerns foremost in mind. This analysis also examines the potential efficacy of practical strategies linked to aesthetic, cognitive, affective, and moral imagination that may allow officials to become more aware of their statecentred subjectivity and how it influences their perceptions of threats to national security and to fraud. This analysis encourages adjudication officers to strive for a more nuanced understanding of what constitutes fraud and national security concerns and what are instead presuppositions created by the United States population-protection agenda.La loi aux États-Unis investit les agents préposés aux demandes d’asile avec la responsabilité d’accorder la protection humanitaire aux réfugiés et en même temps de protéger le pays des dangers venant de l’extérieur. Un tel mandat nécessite que les agents réconcilient des exigences potentiellement conflictuelles tout en assurant un traitement équitable des demandeurs. Cet article étudie le processus selon lequel les agents chargés de cette responsabilité peuvent développer une subjectivité axée sur le régime qui les conditionne souvent à voir les demandeurs dans une perspective privilégiant la sécurité et la fraude. Également, cette analyse examine l’efficacité potentielle de stratégies pratiques liées à l’imagination esthétique, cognitive, affective, et morale qui pourraient rendre les agents plus conscients de leur subjectivité axée sur l’état et comment elle influe sur leurs perceptions de ce qui constitue un danger pour la sécurité nationale et un risque de fraude

Determinants of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Implementation During Heart Failure Hospitalization.

BACKGROUND: Despite evidence that guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMTs) improve outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), implementation remains suboptimal. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to measure GDMT implementation during acute HFrEF hospitalization, evaluate the association between socioeconomic factors and GDMT implementation, and assess the association of GDMT utilization with subsequent clinical events. METHODS: Retrospective determination of GDMT utilization using a modified optimal medical therapy (mOMT) score (which accounts for specific contraindications to drugs) during unplanned HF hospitalization of consecutive adult patients with new-onset or previously diagnosed HFrEF from 2017 to 2018. Outcomes included discharge mOMT score, association between socioeconomic factors and GDMT implementation (assessed using both the Mann-Whitney U test for binary variables and the Kruskall-Wallace for nonbinary variables), composite outcome 1-year all-cause mortality and 1-year HF readmission, and each component as a function of discharge mOMT score (assessed using univariate and multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models). RESULTS: Of 391 patients fulfilling entry criteria (of which 152 [38.9%] had new-onset HFrEF), only 49 (12.5%) had a perfect or near-perfect discharge mOMT score. Black patients and those experiencing homelessness had significantly lower discharge mOMT scores. Higher discharge mOMT score is associated with a lower rate of composite endpoint events, particularly in patients with new-onset HFrEF. Overall, a 0.1-increase in the mOMT score resulted in a 9.2% reduction in the composite endpoint. CONCLUSIONS: Suboptimal implementation of GDMT during HF hospitalization is widespread and is associated with a worse outcome. Black patients and patients experiencing homelessness were less likely to have GDMT optimized