As Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival returns for the first time in 2 years this weekend we couldn't be more excited to welcome everyone back to the farm! But as we know that not all of you will be able to make it in-person, we are excited to announce that Friday and Saturday night of the festival will be available to watch LIVE from anywhere through a high definition multi-camera live stream broadcast by StageIt and Event Webcasting!
able to help to mitigate and minimize the young people s ongoing fears that put them at risk later on in their lives. hold on one second, dr. shervi shervington. james, as i was reading this report and reminded me of the years i was living in new orleans, the extent to which mental health care services were actually leaving the city, that beds there were fewer beds available for both youth and for adults. it s so frustrating. we saw it happening and it was really clear that governor bobby jindal did have a mental health plan. his mental health plan was called opp, orleans parish prison. if you have a mental health problem, the way it will be treated you will be arrested, you will be imprisoned. you won t be treated. you won t be seen by someone who can actually help you with your problems. and what we know is if you re uprooted, you will experience root shock. a doctor comes to new orleans and tells us about how being
you know, i think it s the most important question you can ask any policy maker elected official. you got to know where they stand on this issue. it starts from the fundamental problem that people don t realize that poverty is as american as apple pie. it s fundamental to who america is. this notion that individuals essentially decide to be poor, they decide to they make bad decisions and they use bad judgment and then they decide to live in the same community and neighborhoods together is crazy. it s actually systems that cause poverty. if you re in an organization like mine and working to change the systems, then you have to understand fundamentally that the systems are designed to create poverty. it s part of who we are. it s interesting you make this point about kind of the structures or the systems. mindy, i want to come to you. i teach your book, root shock, in my course on disaster and american politics. and you know, the fact that the president responded to the poverty qu