May 14, 2019 Three advocates for public policy action to reduce gun violence explored options this morning. The focus was not on rolling back the Second Amendment, or a particular list of legislative initiatives. Instead, the focus was on lives lost, families torn apart, and what long list of ... Continue Reading →
3 women helping their clients rebuild their lives
March 26, 2019 The three women who gathered at the Forum presenters' table today operate in a societal space populated by the homeless, the sick, the destitute, the jobless, the skill-less, the hopeless. Each has her silo, but they have been known to work together for the benefit of their ... Continue Reading →
Promoting understanding of the complicated insurance world
Jan. 29, 2019 Robin Tolliver-Ayotunde is an insurance broker. Her background is in health insurance. On Tuesday she presented herself as marketing director for World Financial Group, a Transamerica unit based in Georgia and with a Charlotte office on Independence. She answered lots of questions ... Continue Reading →
Sickle cell patients need African-Americans to donate blood
July 13, 2018 Jessica Jankowski writes that, where the blood supply meets patients with sickle cell disease, there is “a problem.” “This past week alone, JUST ONE local hospital required over 170 of these specially matched units to treat sickle cell patients,” says Jankowski, communications ... Continue Reading →
Blue Star Mothers
May 29, 2018 They're in a sort of club, the Blue Star Mothers, that few would be excited to join: They have or have had family members in the U.S. military. The Gold Star Mothers among them have seen loved ones lose their lives in the service of their country. Yet they are reaching out to each ... Continue Reading →
How science now sees adverse experiences impacting children
May 15, 2018 Tuesday's presentation offered a view into how scientists' understanding of childhood behavior has been revolutionized by examining the impact that the violence and abuse that children witness early in their lives poisons them and seems to cause physical and mental illness later – ... Continue Reading →
3 women whose organizations are serving the elders
March 6, 2017 They tend the sick. They strengthen those recovering from illness or falls. They nourish the bodies of those who can no longer prepare meals for themselves and have no one to prepare meals for them. Most of Tuesday's questions went to Renee Rizzuti, whose organization, PACE of the ... Continue Reading →
Programs serving children need volunteers
From left: Kwain Bryant from Goodwill, Azizi Coleman from Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Agency, and Shantiqua Neely from A Child's Place. Feb. 20, 2018 Four leaders of area programs serving youth spoke about their programs today. Residents from infancy into adulthood are involved. All of the ... Continue Reading →
Terri Joelle portrays Queen Charlotte to teach history
Jan. 23, 2018 Terri Joelle portrays Queen Charlotte, as a tour guide and as a teacher of history. She brought some of her show to the Forum this morning. During her presentation, Joelle refers to slides that were viewable on the wall behind her during the presentation. Those slides are below the ... Continue Reading →
Single-payer: Shifting dollars from paperwork to better health for people
Sept. 19, 2017 Dr. Jessica Schorr Saxe spent decades as a practicing Charlotte pediatrician, many of those years in clinics serving low-income clients. She has personal experience with people unable to afford the health care that would have given them hope for a better life. Today, she is ... Continue Reading →
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