One summer I worked in an internship with a parachurch organization. Their goal was engaging their neighborhood and trying to solve food security, homelessness, violence, and substance abuse.   Over the summer I worked at the mission and the staff grew more concerned about break ins going on in the neighborhood and growing risk to the mission. The director decided we needed to have some security. We didn’t have any funding for extra help, so the decision was made to get one o

I want to address an ongoing pain point in our culture: helping our children, particularly adolescents, develop greater resilience in the...