by Linnet Burden | Aug 31, 2021 | Stop the Cycle
They’re playing to a tough crowd: 96% have prior arrests, 64% served time behind bars and 80% have been victims of violent crime themselves. READI Chicago, the Rapid Employment And Development Initiative, serves a hardened clientele that many wouldn’t attempt to...
by Linnet Burden | Jun 18, 2021 | Stop the Cycle
Tamar Manasseh lays out a recipe for Chicago’s violence. “If you bake a cake, you need many things,” said the founder of Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings (MASK). “If you remove the baking soda or the eggs or something else, it won’t be a cake.” Likewise, she...
by Linnet Burden | Jun 18, 2021 | Stop the Cycle
Friends of the Children stresses “the power of one” – one person, that is, who can rescue a kid from violence. “Our model is distinct, courageous and proven,” the organization’s website states. It is based on studies that show a caring, consistent adult is the one...
by Linnet Burden | Jun 17, 2021 | Stop the Cycle
It’s not what a typical medical student thinks of when they choose pediatrics as their field. But it’s now part of Dr. Bradley Stolbach’s career in children’s health care: gunshot wounds. Also stabbings and blunt force trauma inflicted by bricks, baseball bats and...
by Linnet Burden | Jun 16, 2021 | Stop the Cycle
When a horrific school shooting in 2018 left 17 dead in affluent Parkland, Florida, nationwide headlines screamed and students received counseling and therapy dogs. When violent death hits students in Chicago’s poorer, high-crime neighborhoods, “we just get harsher...
