Archives for December 2012

Help FFI Break Cycles of Poverty and Violence in 2013

If you believe, as we do, that services and systems that break cycles of poverty and violence should be the norm, please consider a year-end gift to the Full Frame Initiative. Donate online or write to us today. [Read more…]

Working and connecting in California and Chicago (NLADA)

FFI is in California this week to facilitate the first in a series of workshops for survivors of domestic violence, part of our statewide project to bring to light how the definitions of “success” held by various stakeholders effect domestic violence policies and systems. [Read more…]

The Full Frame Initiative believes ending racism and advancing racial equity depends on increasing access to wellbeing — the needs and experiences essential in combination and balance to weather challenges and have health and hope. The United States is set up to make it easier for some people to have access to wellbeing than others, based on their race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability status and other identities. Differences in access to wellbeing create differences in experiences and outcomes, and this perpetuates inequities. In particular, racism is a key part of what keeps inequity alive in the United States. Ending racism and other forms of oppression in our country depends on a broad and deep recognition that we all share a universal drive to wellbeing, we all have a right to wellbeing, and we all deserve a fair shot at wellbeing. FFI is an anti-racist organization committed to addressing issues of racial and social equity in all our work.

Holding Cognitive Dissonance During COVID-19

As the pandemic hit, a friend asked me, “what has your experience of this time been like?” I felt compelled to respond with something around how bad it has been because that’s what I should feel. This has been a time of suffering for many, particularly for people who already live in crisis all the […]

Moving Forward With What Has Been Working

COVID-19 has forced all of us to adapt to unexpected, major life changes that have come with many challenges. Chances are, you’ve been analyzing all of these challenges and looking forward to the day when they aren’t there. We know that when we get overly focused on challenges, in our best efforts to address them, […]

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Archives for December 2012