PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF PROGRAMS AND POLICIES The movement toward employing professionals with personal experiences with systems is rooted in both moral arguments and practical considerations: “Our takeaways from this paper are straightforward: When you bring personal experience into program design, … Read More
The Annie E Casey Foundation
Using Strength And Challenges To Measure Youth Well-Being
WHAT IS STRENGTH-BASED MEASUREMENT? A Landscape Scan includes background on the movement toward adopting more strength-based approaches in the field of psychology. Traditionally, researchers have focused on the negative forces youth face. This is a holdover from health research, built around mitigating … Read More
What’s the Difference Between Equity and Equality?
Well-meaning people often use the terms “equity” and “equality” interchangeably when discussing matters related to race and social justice. While both terms have to do with “fairness,” there are key differences as the application of one over the other may lead to drastically different outcomes. … Read More