week 2 post 1

Storytelling for social change:

reading stories and identifying,

Who was in it?

What are they doing?

Where are they?

When is this happening?

Who is the antagonist/protagonist?

Why are the antagonist and protagonist doing what they’re doing?

Tell a personal story:

April 15th, 2013 boston massachusetts.

I was only 11. Wandering the streets with eyes of awe and excitement. We hustled through the streets to catch a train to the woodland T marathon stop to cheer on my dad. Never in my life had I been in an environment that could replicate the excited energy of the crowd, and never will I be able to explain the excitement of the crowd. Zoom. the my dad runs by, wave 1 of the Boston marathon. We set back for the city in a scramble eager to watch the finish of his race. The finish becomes equally enveloping, runners crying at the final destination. I will never forget my dad's smile when he finished that race. And I will never forget the first Bang. I will never forget the screaming, running, blood, and tears. I will never forget the horrified faces running by me, I will never forget when the boston first detonated in boston. I will never forget Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s names ringing through the streets. I will never forget the absolute disgust i felt for them nor the beauty i saw of the city coming together, Never will that experience leave me.

Rough draft

Inciting Empathy

With Anita gonzalez

-walking in the footsteps of the character

-empathizing with a character

-sympathetic human being with a valid perspective

-connecting with the antagonist and protagonist and all of the inbetween

-interconnected lenses

- not hearing each perspective can lead to hatred and gaps or miscommunication

- hearing new voice

Malcolm Tulip Interview

Malcolm Tulip, assistant professor of theatre, is an actor, director, playwright, head of the directing concentration, and co-founder of the Interarts program.

• at its broadest level, it is identifying with the feelings of someone else
• Getting the trust of the listener, they will buy in
• Proselytize
• Bertolt brecht, major theater practitioner of 20th century, he was a marksist
• Theater useless if not used for social change, the epic theater
• Follow the emotional state and disrupt it in a long term way
• People don't bother to listen to the feelings 
• Advocate for the storyteller to be aware of the impact of their story
• A gesture is not a movement but an attitude
• I love you versus i love you but 
• Michal chekhov
• Making social commentary and mental turmoil

Sarah Jones ted talk:

• The invention of self
• To what extent do we self construct, self invent
• What if one could be anyone at any time
• Play with the spaces between those questions 
• Luminaries
• Basically showing how a character can show a lot of different backgrounds

Anna Deavere smith:

• If you say a word enough it becomes you 
• Being a character so people understand what people like that character irl are going through

I will be interpreting Refugee Migration in José Cruz’s perspective.

My family's life before this country was not easy. Oaxaca, Mexico ate them up and spit them out. To live there meant to accept the endurance of unbearable violence and corruption. So they picked up and left everything they had ever known in the pursuit of a better life. Had they not done this my life would have been entirely different if not nonexistent. This country has brought me more opportunities than my family ever could have. So I understand how brutal it must be to live under a corrupt government, but just as my family has done before I want it to be legal. I say this entirely for the safety of the new migrants and country. 

I will be interpreting Refugee Migration in Maria Flores’s perspective.

 

Everyday I wake up with the teeth of fear clenched on to my body. Immediately I count my children, 1, 2, 3. I sigh a deep sigh of relief. I have spent the past many years living constantly on the run from corruption and violence in my country. As soon as I have finally taken the step to escape this living hell I have been taken and thrown into a new hell, this time a sterile hell. All I want is to be safe, to have my children feel safe for one time in their life. In honduras there is no way to apply to be an american citizen. So here I am in the hands of border patrol, my mission towards safety frozen by their cold hands.

Unit 2 journalism for social change

Reporting Boot Camp

Basic writing:

• Lead is opening sentence, who, what, why, where, when, and how
• Nut graph, upside down pyramid 
• Paragraphs that are organized by nut graph
• Get right into the big stuff and dwindle down to the less important stuff but keep it interesting and contrasty
• Don’t end on a quote

Quoting, two ways to attribute a live source

• By paraphrasing
• By direct quote

Story Structure and AP Style

•  different news hooks
• evergreen, a story that will always be of interest ex. Triumph, someone making it against the odds not as strong of a new hook
• Expected, expected things that will happen. Ex. the federal government will release an employment index, or reporting on a legislative session, it is expected
• Unexpected, huge news item that comes onto the radar, zeitgeist, opportunities to jump into larger things, breaking news
• You are gonna have to use the phone to talk to other people on the phone, identify yourself, reporting on issues on issues of children in foster system for example
• Cannot name the person
• If we use children as sources be careful of their needs and cognizant 
• Don't entirely anonymously quote people
• Go to research studies, administrative data
• Make sure they are peer reviewed
• Court documents
• Read what other people are doing

Child-Safety v. Family Preservation

• Vulnerable children are not prioritized by the gov
• Child welfare
• Child safety versus family preservation

Jill Duerr Berrick Video

• Providing resources to keep families together
• The degree of harm is where the grey area is and it is then hard to make laws about
• Sufficient regard to the individual rights
• Compromising safety or preservation
• Adoption and safe families act in 1997
• When caseloads get higher it gets more towards family preservation orientation 
• Money pushes the pendulum towards a child safety orientation 
• Title IV-E entitlement
• We need more mental health resources, and educational services
• Foster parents are not paid well and are under resourced
• UNDER RESOURCED and UNADDRESSED
• Why is the conversation always about doing a lot with so little 

Herman, Ellen (2012). Adoption History Project: Fostering and Foster Care.

• Before 1945, “fostering” referred to numerous arrangements in which children were cared for in homes other than their own
• The case for foster care was articulated by nineteenth-century child-savers, including Charles Loring Brace, publicized by the orphan trains, and advanced by states that experimented with placing-out children rather than consigning them to orphanages.    
• Henry Dwight Chapin, a New York pediatrician and founder of the Speedwell Society whose wife established one of the country’s first specialized adoption agencies, the Alice Chapin Nursery, in 1910. 
• front lines of this movement were “foster parents” who took other people’s children into their homes temporarily and permanently, informally and formally
• By 1950, statistics showed that children in family foster care outnumbered children in institutions for the first time. By 1960, there were more than twice as many in foster care. By the late 1970s, the foster child population exceeded 500,000, roughly where it stands today.
• Two developments distanced adoption from foster care after the New Deal and World War II: the growth of public social welfare services and a new consciousness about the plight of African-American, mixed-race, older, native, developmentally delayed, physically disabled, and other hard-to-place children. 
• Race as well as class marked the growing gap between foster care and adoption

Roberts, Dorothy (2002). ASFA: An Assault on Family Preservation.

• American child welfare policy operates like a pendulum
•  child welfare policy in the past century has never swung en-tirely to the side of family preservation or child protection
• In the 1970s Congress began to examine the toll that foster care was taking on children and their families. Leading scholars criticized the child welfare system for unnecessarily removing children from their homes and leaving them to languish in foster care
• ontinuity in children's relationships with a caregiver is essential to normal psychological development. Its authors, Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Albert Solnit, argued that children separated from their parents can form bonds of attachment with other adults who fulfill the role of parent., leads to bad attatchment styles in relationships which from the greater good science center we know is bad
•  contrasting parents' rights and children's rights
• Congress implemented its preference for adoption through a set of mandates and incentives to state child welfare department
• ASFA
•  financial incentives to states to get more children adopted
• The incentives appear to be working. There were 46,000 adoptions of foster children in 1999, a 28 percent increase from the previous year. 

"Fostering Connections to Success Act." CASA For Children.

• Website about the act discussing legislature and volunteering

Later check out children's bureau timeline

Discussion, central tensions, the dueling ideologies

I agree that child safety and family preservation are mutually exclusive in resource-starved environments. This can’t occur at the same time because there are different situations which give off outcomes that can either be heaven or hell for a child. I believe that child safety should always be prioritized at all cost, if the parents are neglectful or abusive and the only resort is to separate them from their child, so be it. However, if they are willing to try and change in order to keep their family together, they must be given a chance to prove themselves worthy of being a parent. I think the government should prioritize this type of case because it can either end a life or break a family apart, it is very much important to find a solution for this problem.

The central tension that interests me is poverty. In my opinion, this is the root cause for other societal problems present not only in the Philippines, but in other countries as well. Indigent people, especially those that lack education, tend to do anything in order to survive. This involves crimes and drug use. For decades, the different administrations promised to give a solution for this unending problem but it seems like change isn’t really that evident.

Child Maltreatment, a Public Health Lens

Leonard Syme, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

• the health of our country is determined by the health of our children
• Social rank hiring disease 
• Inextricably intertwined aspects of social class
• Michal marmot
• Ability of people to control the events that impinge on your life
• Ability to see alternatives
• How do you change policy so we have quality effective services
• Instilling destiny in these young children

Read related articles

Aces101

1. The CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE Study and subsequent surveys that show that most people in the U.S. have at least one ACE, and that people with four ACEs— including living with an alcoholic parent, racism, bullying, witnessing violence outside the home, physical abuse, and losing a parent to divorce — have a huge risk of adult onset of chronic health problems such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, suicide, and alcoholism.
2. Brain science (neurobiology of toxic stress) — how toxic stress caused by ACEs damages the function and structure of kids’ developing brains.
3. Health consequences — how toxic stress caused by ACEs affects short- and long-term health, and can impact every part of the body, leading to autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis, as well as heart disease, breast cancer, lung cancer, etc.
4. Historical and generational trauma (epigenetic consequences of toxic stress) — how toxic stress caused by ACEs can alter how our DNA functions, and how that can be passed on from generation to generation.
5. Resilience research and practice — Building on the knowledge that the brain is plastic and the body wants to heal, this part of ACEs science includes evidence-based practice, as well as practice-based evidence by people, organizations and communities that are integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices

ACEs fall into three large categories:

• Adverse childhood experiences
• Adverse community experiences
• Adverse climate experiences

That’s true, but the research from epigenetics — the study of how social and other environments turn our genes on and off — shows that toxic stress can actually change how our genes function, which can lead to long-term changes in all parts of our bodies and brains. What’s more, these changes can be transferred from generation to generation.