Highlighting the latest happenings of the grant-funded collaboration with the ACHD
The V.I.B.E program — a three-person violence intervention and prevention team at Sto-Rox— stands for Violence Intervention Building Empowerment, but Hassain Estes, the leader of the program, likes to sometimes refer to them as something else. “Personally, I feel like we’ve got […]
The Duquesne City School District makes equity a priority. On a day-to-day basis, the district is constantly looking for new ways to properly access and educate each and every student equally. Lucy McDonough, the district’s special education consultant, has furthered those […]
Years of experience in the grant and evaluation realm have taught Sheila Bell a number of things. Chief among them: good intentions can’t reach their potential without fully formed plans. Project SEEKS SES is an initiative that started off with good […]
A couple of years ago, Anna Arlotta Guerrero realized that a teacher shortage was on the horizon. Guerrero, an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pittsburgh, said a perfect confluence of factors has led the profession down this road. […]
When discussing why the Allegheny County Heath Department (ACHD) chose the AIU to facilitate Project SEEKS SES, ACHD acting director Patrick Dowd said the choice was simple. “We had to find a partner that could do a bunch of things at […]
When Liz Miller learned about Project SEEKS SES, she knew that she’d be an apt partner for the work. Miller wears a number of hats, but has made waves within the mental health and education realm for her work with the […]
Lee Davis prides himself on his empathy. Davis, the founder of Lee Davis & Associates Consulting, grew up in Braddock and went to Woodland Hills, seeing and experiencing violence around him regularly. Those experiences shaped the man he is today, a […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged on and effects in its aftermath became clearer, the Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) started thinking of solutions. From their vantage point, health officials saw that school-aged children were experiencing increased levels of trauma leading to […]
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Shannon Fagan, Project SEEKS SES Coordinator
412-909-7448