Anchored to: the proposed certification requirement, modeled on trauma-informed care training Clinical social workers don’t get to claim trauma-informed practice… Read more: Trained Like a Trauma Clinician

Source: Definitional Crisis Article A homeless services director said something during fieldwork that captures a whole policy failure in one… Read more: Policy implications: We All Use the Same Vague Terminology

Anchored to: the outcome, Rachel’s weight loss and improving prediabetes. Rachel didn’t just change her spending. She lost weight. Her… Read more: $125 to Save a Life

Anchored to: the conversation about the domino effect of Rachel’s last-minute mornings. Once Rachel and I understood her 6 a.m.,… Read more: The Flat Tire That Could Cost You Your Job

“The Pattern at 6, Noon, and 3:30”Source: fieldwork case example (pseudonym)Anchored to: the moment sorting receipts by time revealed Rachel’s… Read more: Chips, Candy, and a Soda: Rachel’s Story

I’ve spent a month unpacking what I mean by crisis-informed financial literacy. Now I want to hear from you. If… Read more: Tell Me What You’d Say

Knowles’ theory of andragogy, one of the foundational frameworks in adult education, assumes the adult learner is self-directed, ready to… Read more: Where Andragogy Assumes Too Much” (Hybrid, Friction)

Mullainathan and Shafir (2013), in their research on scarcity, found something that reframed how I think about crisis-time decision-making: scarcity… Read more: The Bandwidth Tax

The clearest proof I have that crisis-informed financial literacy is a genuinely different subject, not just a softer version of… Read more: Measuring the Right Thing

Two numbers have anchored a lot of what I’ve written this month. Seventy-three percent of our own residents once told… Read more: The 73%, Revisited