A recent article in the Wall Street Journal makes a strong case for patient activation. Patient activation refers to a patient’s knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their own health. According to the article, “patients who are highly activated have better outcomes and incur lower costs, studies show, even though as many as 40% of […]
July 30, 2009
Teaching the RQP Civic Engagement Strategy and Learning Lifelong Skills in a Women’s Prison
Sheila teaches adult education at the county jail in Wilmington Indiana. Her courses are the only education inmates get while they’re in jail; she teaches them to read, prepares them for the GED, overall college readiness and life skills. Sheila was trained to teach adult education using traditional methods, focusing on independent study, testing, drilling. […]
October 31, 2008
Making connections: Domestic Violence, Homelessness and…Voting?
For the past month, the nation has sharply focused on a decision about who will lead the country for the next four years. In that same time, in our voter engagement initiative, we’ve been working with people who, every week, come face to face with decisions in the public sector that have enormous consequences for […]
October 22, 2008
Overcoming Subtle forms of Voter Suppression
When I was a welfare recipient, I always felt like the caseworker on the other side of the desk had a lot of power to affect my life. There were all sorts of decisions made right there, on the spot, that might mean my benefits could be cut off or maybe I wouldn’t be able […]
