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I attended an interesting seminar on Friday. It was entitled Mobilizing a Multi-sector Approach to a Healthier America: Resolving the “spend more/achieve less” paradox. It was sponsored by the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy,  the  Donaghue Foundation  and the  Connecticut Association of Nonprofits.  The main speakers were Dr. Elizabeth Bradley , professor of public health at Yale, faculty director of its Global Health Leadership Institute and author, will share comments about the complicated question "why is our society less healthy than other industrialized countries when the U.S. spends so much more on health care? and co-author, Lauren Taylor, MPH ., Dr. Bradley offered insights from extensive research and discussed how our current health care system provides limited outcomes while expending excessive resources. They are the authors of a new book " The American Health Care Paradox . "   The authors began by showing us that the US spends more...

Happy New Year! I would like to start the year by recommending a book: To the End of June by Cris Beam ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013) . This is a book about the foster care system, told both through carefully researched facts and information and through the stories of the children and families who make up the system. Amazon describes it as: “Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care, looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is   To the End of June , an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children at the critical points in their search for a stable, loving family. Focusing intensely on a few foster families who are deeply invested in the system’s success, To the End of June is essential for humanizing and challenging a broken system, while at the same time it is a tribute to resiliency and offers ho...