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Talking with children
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2020-issue-2/talking-childrenOregon author Shauna Tominey has lived in a lot of states and worked as a researcher and teacher with many kinds of families. “I have found that as I’ve worked with families in different settings, there are commonalities in the ways they... Read More
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Book Review: Transforming trauma
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2017-issue-1/book-review-transforming-traumaThe title of child psychiatrist Bruce Perry’s book, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, promises a compelling read — and it delivers. In each of his 12 page-turning chapters, Perry draws on his years of treating traumatized children to... Read More
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Foundation team grows
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2016-issue-2/foundation-team-growsOur team is growing. Six new employees have filled newly created positions. Kathleen Flanagan is a program officer for Community Economic Development. Flanagan comes to the Foundation from the Wildhorse Resort and Casino in Pendleton... Read More
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The haves and have-nots
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2015-issue-2/haves-and-have-notsThe best clue to the subject matter of social scientist Robert Putnam’s latest best-selling book is in the title, Our Kids. As Putnam surveys the growing schism between the haves and have-nots in America today, he pounds this concept home... Read More
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How is Oregon responding?
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2014-issue-2/how-oregon-respondingChart above: Research published in the the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (Vol 14, Issue 4 , May 1998) found “a strong graded relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and... Read More