Mental Health Celebration
By Patricia Marrone Bennett and Roberta Chambers Last night, we had the privilege of attending a celebration for the restoration of mental health funding in the California state budget. For the first time in history, mental health funding was increased after decades of devastating cuts that have undermined the infrastructure and capacity of the public…
RDA Presents Case Study at International Conferences on Management
We are very pleased to have been chosen to present a paper entitled Improving System-level Outcomes through Shared Managerial Understanding – A Case Study of A Group Process Strategy. The paper describes how local government jurisdictions in the United States face revenue loss due to our economic recession, and are experiencing a loss of institutional…
RDA NOMINATED FOR THE OAKLAND INDIE AWARDS!
RDA has been nominated for an Oakland Indie Award as a Social Changemaker! The Oakland Indie Awards is a One PacificCoast Foundation initiative, in partnership with East Bay Express, encouraging people to recognize the community, economic, environmental and political impacts of supporting locally owned businesses and local artists. For more information about the event, you…
A HUGE OPPORTUNITY
By Patricia Marrone Bennett The Public Safety Realignment Act, known as AB 109 or “Realignment”, has given our local communities a chance to implement “the most significant change in criminal justice in California in more than three decades”.[1] California is requiring counties to oversee all non-violent, non-serious, non-sex offenders by either putting them on county-supervised…
Child Welfare and Immigrant Families
By Patricia Marrone Bennett Last month, I had one of those wonderful opportunities to step outside of my day-to-day work life and refresh my brain by attending a workshop. The topic of discussion was the social impact of the global economy and the fracturing of immigrant families. I learned some alarming facts regarding the disposition…
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