As I posted several weeks ago, I feel it is important to celebrate with our staff on their achievements throughout the year. Particularly while working with difficult clients it is significant to acknowledge how challenging this intensely important work is to our clients and their families. Today we had that kind of day at Lakeside. […]
How do You Know if You Would Benefit from Therapy?
Some of you reading this blog have already experienced therapy in one form or another. Others of you may have wondered if it is something you should consider. I thought it might be helpful to provide you with some information and possible insights about therapy in this and in the next few blogs I write. […]
Guns and Youth Are Not a Good Combination
As we are watching the varied news reports about mass shootings that are so prevalent, I know many of us are struggling to find an explanation and answers. At best all that surrounds this set of issues is very complex. The arguments are numerous including our second amendment rights, gun legislation, mental health program expansion, […]
Non-Profit Leadership: The Use of Humor in the Workplace
I remember a number of years ago I took a two-week vacation. I returned to work on a Monday and some of my staff and I were talking. They started talking about what they missed about me not being at work. I wondered what they would come up with? Was it my wisdom, expertise, perspective […]
Do You Know How to Talk to Someone Who Has Lost a Child?
With all the carnage we have seen recently in the news, we need to consider what we know about talking with someone who has lost a child. Parents who lose children to illness and accidents need and deserve to be supported by their families and friends to help them move through the painful process of […]
Non-Profit Leadership: Adapting to a Digital World
Most non-profits struggle to keep up with the changing trends in technology. I am inundated with technology companies who are wanting to assess us, provide technology services, market us, handle our HR department and provide all kinds of digital options to improve our quality. I find it difficult to even sort out all the opportunities. […]
Non-Profit Leadership: The Importance of Celebrations
For Lakeside, June is a month that is replete with celebrations. Since we have four schools there are four different graduation and student awards events. This year we have 3 long-standing staff members who are retiring, and they will have retirement events in honor of their long tenure. We also have an all-staff picnic day […]
Did the Uvalde, Texas Shooter Suffer from Childhood Trauma?
Once again, our headlines are filled with the story of the tragic shooting and multiple deaths in Uvalde, TX. For days the news headlines have reported on the horrific details of this tragedy. Podcasts, newscasts, journals and social media speak of the ways to make such tragedies something that never happens again. Yet here we […]
Reflecting on Memorial Day, 2022
As I watch so many of us celebrating the beginning the summer season I am reminded of the many opportunities and blessings that we have as a nation and as individual families. So many of us are taking time for refreshment and renewal this Memorial Day weekend. We are extremely fortunate to live in a […]
Uniting Around the Tragedy in Uvalde, Texas
I would be remiss to continue my normal posts on non-profit leadership in light of the tragedy that has occurred with the mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School. This has been a devastating week in our country and for all those who have been involved in this brutal set of murders in this Texas […]
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