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		<title>Another Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8:00 AM Last Thursday night, I stood in front of a podium in the BWI Marriott&#8217;s ballroom and introduced a handsome, well dressed fifteen-year-old African American male who lives in a foster home with his younger sibling. As President of Maryland&#8217;s state association of private child caring agencies, and before an audience of nearly 400&#8211;including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Are No Flowers There</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the height of the ever so brief National Cherry Blossom season. I normally take a sort of suburban, somewhat distant notice of the cherry trees along the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC when this magic day arrives&#8230;..when the thousands of trees bloom all along the Potomac  River. After all, they were donated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Did We Get Here on Valentine&#8217;s Day?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, as we celebrated Saint Valentine&#8217;s Day, approximately half of 190 million valentines were given to family members other than a husband or wife, usually to children. When valentine-exchange cards made in school activities are included, the number approaches 1 billion, and teachers receive the most valentines (US Greeting Card Association, 2010). So I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fail Safe Reflections on Sandy Hook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I truly have struggled to address the stunning implications of the recent massacre of such sweet innocents in Connecticut. The last few days have moved by much like a slow-motion film, and mostly have been unbelievable. This delay in my personal response to the tragedy may stem from my early (and perhaps premature) days of taking care of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, my eight-year-old granddaughter asked me, &#8220;Grammy, will you give me an iPad for Christmas?&#8221; I was sad.  Oh sure, I checked with her mother and the teacher regarding the benefits of her using fun applications for mastering math and reading comprehension, and I discovered that I do not need to get the newest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Illustrious Team and Its Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as a young child, I was highly conscious of leadership. I was born to be fascinated with the power of groups and how individuals influence them and are influenced. I was a member of every peer group in my community: foster children, poor children growing up in the streets, college bound children attending elite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super Storms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I sat in a room with more than 50 women, mostly residents of the four homeless programs sponsored by NCCF in the region, mostly mothers. The invited speaker looked each of us directly in our eyes before she shared her story, carefully evaluating our individual presence, perhaps seeking access to our very spirits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Down the Mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After working with angry, injured, neglected youth for over 40 years, I am accustomed to having a mask presented to me when I first meet a teenager who psychologically is &#8220;in the world alone.&#8221; Indeed, he usually prefers to brandish a mask at the initial introduction. See, I&#8217;m crazy.  Really, I am bad.  If brave enough, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legacy of Loss or Hope?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I thought that we had managed our way soberly, but successfully, through another anniversary of 9/11, with all of its remembrances.  This bookmark in our country&#8217;s story recalls also days in my offices on the 23rd floor of Two World Trade Center, during the 70s.  I was employed by the New State Division for Youth as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holders of Hope: Challenging Complex, Wicked Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Sheryl Brissett Chapman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, I had the honor of speaking before a sold out, national audience of 1,000 social workers in Washington, DC.  Dr. Elizabeth J. Clark, executive director, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) led  this meeting of the decade with the theme &#8220;Restoring Hope: The Power of Social Work.  I joined Terry Cross of the [...]]]></description>
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