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Jails and prisons have become de facto psychiatric “hospitals” (institutions) which warehouse the seriously mentally ill.  We know that 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates in state prisons have a serious mental illness (356,000), more than 10 times the number of those that remain at state psychiatric hospitals. Seventy percent...

 “Mansplaining.” The “Woman Card.” Recently, the traditional media and social media universes are abuzz with conversations about what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. Issues pertaining to gender in the workplace are some of the most hotly contested.  And it’s not surprising. Women comprise nearly half of the U.S. labor force...

Dr. Edin appeared at the City Club as part of our Resilient Families series, sponsored by the William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Foundation and Saint Luke's Foundation, in partnership with Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio, Inc. Other speakers in this series have included Marian Wright Edelman, Judy Langford, and Angela Patton. Thanks...

The City Club of Cleveland is pleased to annouce the winners of the 2016 Hope and Stanley Adelstein Free Speech Essay Competition! For a live reading of these winning essays, listen here or watch below: Winners - 11th & 12th Grade 1st Place: Isabella Nilsson, 12th grade, Hathaway Brown Teacher: Scott Parsons 2nd Place: Savannah Williams,...