Gail Roy, M.A., ATR-BC, LCPC, is on the Core Faculty of the Adler School M.A. in Counseling Psychology: Art Therapy Program. Board-certified and registered as an art therapist and an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor, she holds a post-graduate certificate in clinical practice with LGBT individuals and their families. She has more than 20 years … Continue reading »
After more than 20 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this spring revised its policy guidance on employers’ use of arrest records in making hiring decisions. The announcement received a great deal of media attention. In communities like Chicago’s underserved Englewood community, a significant number of residents are arrested in police sweeps but … Continue reading »
About 100 volunteers in bright green T-shirts split up into groups Saturday and cleaned main thoroughfares and yards in Englewood, clearing away much of the litter that has long plagued the neighborhood’s streets and lots. The volunteers worked together from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the first ever Greater Englewood Unity Day, part of Chicago’s … Continue reading »
The Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) has a busy series of events and presentations coming up, beginning this week with Executive Director Lynn Todman’s panel presentation at the first-ever National Health Impact Assessment Meeting in Washington D.C. Here is the schedule: April 3-4: Inaugural National Health Impact Assessment Meeting, Washington, D.C. Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director … Continue reading »
As we walk the streets of their neighborhood, they are infuriated with abandoned buildings, garbage, liquor bottles, and other waste left about as if it doesn’t matter. That’s how an Adler School art therapy student described a walk one day with teenagers in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, a group with whom she worked this summer as part of an ongoing … Continue reading »
