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Community Updates

Survey Results: Do Aggressive Signs Reduce Aggression?

January 19, 2023

Over the last handful of months, we’ve been requesting that people fill out a survey on signage popping up in healthcare facilities warning people against “violence” and “aggression.” 75 people […]

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Movement Losses: Celia Brown

December 20, 2022

The pandemic has been hard for so many reasons, but among them is the loss of so many movement elders including Margo McMahon, Mary Ann Ebert, George Ebert, Jay Mahler, […]

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Club Q & Anti-LGBTQIA+ Hate

November 22, 2022

Late on November 19, a man wearing body armor entered Club Q – considered a safe haven for LGBTQIA+ folks – in Colorado Springs, Colorado and immediately began shooting. He […]

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Do Signs Telling People not to be Aggressive Help or Harm?

October 1, 2022

Signs warning that “aggressive behavior will not be tolerated” are popping up everywhere. According to Vice President of Operations and Chief Administrative Officer at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Anthony Scibelli, at […]

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DMH Guidelines for Implementation of Policy #21-01 — LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Policy

October 1, 2022

August, 2021 If guidelines are released, but no one knows about them, do they really exist? It’s a good question, and in many regards, the answer is probably “no!” That said, […]

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SAMHSA’s National Recovery Summit, 2022

September 28, 2022

In August, 2022, people from across the country gathered both in person and virtually to attend the first recovery summit (or similar) to be held by the Substance Abuse and […]

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An Open Letter to Domenic Sarno, Mayor of Springfield, and Cheryl Clapprood, Springfield Police Commissioner

January 14, 2022

An open letter to Mayor Domenic Sarno and Police Commissioner Cheryl Clapprood re: the Shooting Death of Orlando Taylor on January 9, 2022

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And Our New Name is…

January 30, 2019

After several go rounds and surveys and input from lots of different places, we have settled on:   Wildflower Alliance What is the significance of wild flowers?: Since there beginning […]

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