Podcasts about frameworks institute

Abdul and Katelyn contend with a devastating week at HHS, including: The loss of 20,000 workers A massive restructuring at HHS Senior leaders leaving the ranks The addition of a discredited vaccine skeptic to analyze future data on the MMR vaccine Then Abdul interviews Nat Kendall-Taylor and Julie Sweetland from the Frameworks Institute about their research on American attitudes around vaccine hesitancy, and how to frame productive public health conversations. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don't miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: de Beaumont Foundation: Find new, research-tested messaging to communicate about public health, plus useful tips for the real-world situations you face, at debeaumont.org. Ground News: Go to groundnews.com/AD to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan. Boll & Branch: For a limited time get 20% off at BollAndBranch.com/AD.

Farra Trompeter, co-director, is joined by Dr. Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO, and Carinne Wheedan, director of communications, at the FrameWorks Institute, to discuss how framing can inform a nonprofit's communications strategy. They share practical ways that organizations can effectively apply framing to their messaging or campaigns and provide general tips for those in the mission-driven sector.

Rob loves the people-side of storytelling — and not just the folks in front of the camera, but those behind the lens, behind the scenes, and in front of the screens. He has produced stories across many genres on every platform winning Webbys and Emmys along the way. Pre-PTP, he was the Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning think tank, FrameWorks Institute. Today, Rob runs Picture This Productions, a film studio borne of a belief that what is smart and sophisticated can and should also be beautiful, compelling, and entertaining. I met Rob a few months back and immediately liked the guy. He thinks deeply about the world without losing levity. So, a few weeks after the dancing was done, Rob Shore jumped on the pod and had a little chat. If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. I read them all. You can join my newsletter on Substack. It's glorious.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Rob loves the people-side of storytelling — and not just the folks in front of the camera, but those behind the lens, behind the scenes, and in front of the screens. He has produced stories across many genres on every platform winning Webbys and Emmys along the way. Pre-PTP, he was the Creative Director of the MacArthur Award-winning think tank, FrameWorks Institute. Today, Rob runs Picture This Productions, a film studio borne of a belief that what is smart and sophisticated can and should also be beautiful, compelling, and entertaining. I met Rob a few months back and immediately liked the guy. He thinks deeply about the world without losing levity. So, a few weeks after the dancing was done, Rob Shore jumped on the pod and had a little chat. If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. I read them all. You can join my newsletter on Substack. It's glorious.  Get full access to Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Most of us have preconceived notions about work, workers and employment that are so fundamental to how we think that we don't notice them.  The thing is, such preconceptions shape how large parts of society understand and solve problems. So when a problem is poorly framed, some potentially great solutions can't be heard.  In a previous episode we heard from Nathanial Kendall Taylor, CEO of the Frameworks Institute describing how his company helps non profits reframe problems in order to transform public thinking and enact social change. The Frameworks Institute has just released initial findings on a multi year initiative designed to change the narrative on work and labor. Today we are talking to Director of Research Bec Sanderson who led the effort to learn more about existing frames of work, and ways in which we might disrupt them to bring forward new frames and open doors to new solutions. Bec Sanderson serves as Director of Research at FrameWorks Institute. Her research has been featured in Frontiers in Psychology, The Guardian, Vice, and The Psychologist magazine.In this episode, Dart and Bec discuss:- How to reframe a concept to create new outcomes- Tracking American thoughts on the economy and work- Labor system design issues- The nature of recessive and dominant mindsets- Finding the root cause of a perspective- Alternative work systems and feasible ways to get there- Competitive framing versus solidarity framing- Whether or not we have to work to survive- And other topics…Rebecca Sanderson is a seasoned researcher and writer, currently serving as Director of Research at FrameWorks Institute. With over a decade of experience in framing research, Bec has led mixed-methods research on climate justice, anti-racism, equality, values, and – more recently – labor systems. Her work has been featured in Frontiers in Psychology, The Guardian, Vice, and The Psychologist magazine. Bec holds her MA in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.Resources mentioned:Work Won't Love You Back, by Sarah Jaffe: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Wont-Love-You-Back/dp/1568589395Connect with Bec:https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/person/bec-sanderson/https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/work-shift-landing-page/

Scientists, philanthropies, governments, and NGOs alike often find themselves in possession of an important truth that could improve the world, but the public just can't seem to hear it. As CEO of the FrameWorks Institute, Nathanial Kendall-Taylor knows that how we frame information significantly influences how people perceive and respond to it. Using rigorous social science methods, the Frameworks Institute provides evidence-based techniques that help non-profits communicate in a way that transforms public thinking and enacts social change.Nat is an expert in psychological anthropology and communications science. In addition to his role as CEO, he is also a senior fellow at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine, and a fellow at the British-American Project.In this episode, Dart and Nat discuss:- What frames are and how they impact thinking and cultural mindsets- How the FrameWorks Institute helps organizations disseminate information and ideas- The keys to conveying important information effectively- The steps needed to shift a cultural mindset - The importance of a mobilization strategy when introducing a new idea  - And other topics…Nathaniel Kendall-Taylor is the CEO of the FrameWorks Institute, a communications think tank in Washington, DC that applies framing research methods to social issues and non-profit organizations. He is also a senior fellow at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine, and a fellow at the British-American Project.As an expert in psychological anthropology and communications science, Nat's work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science Communication, Human Organization, and Applied Communications Research. He is a global lecturer and has presented at conferences for the National Academy of Sciences, the Parenting Research Centre in Australia, the Science and Society Symposium in Canada, and Amnesty International in the United Kingdom. Connect with Nat:www.FrameworksInstitute.org 

Jonathan Knopf, Executive Director for Programs at Housing Forward Virginia, speaks with Sean O'Neill, Policy Scientist at the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about developing and leading affordable housing efforts in Virginia. This conversation covers the motivation for and history behind the founding of Housing Forward Virginia and the steps the organization has taken to address the challenge of promoting and developing affordable housing in Virginia. To learn more about Housing Forward Virginia visit https://housingforwardva.org/. Housing Forward Virginia's 2022 housing study is available for review at https://housingforwardva.org/focused-initiatives/hb854-statewide-housing-study/. To review the FrameWorks Institute's work on framing conversations about affordable housing, visit https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/issues/housing/. This episode was recorded on March 29, 2023, for First State Insights, a podcast presented by the Institute for Public Administration (IPA). For more First State Insights episodes, visit https://soundcloud.com/first-state-insights or search for "First State Insights" wherever you listen to podcasts. IPA is a research and public service center within the University of Delaware's Biden School of Public Policy & Administration. For more on IPA, visit https://www.bidenschool.udel.edu/ipa. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 License.

Dr. Julie Sweetland, PhD, MA is a Senior Advisor at the FrameWorks Institute. She is a sociolinguist who focuses on how small differences in language have big effects on the world. Her linguistic research has focused on the intersection of language and race with a particular focus on how language can be used to disrupt racism and other forms of oppression. She conferred a Bachelors in Linguistics at Georgetown University. Then conferred a Master and PhD in Linguistics at Stanford University.Full shownotes: https://thephmillennial.com/episode161Connect with guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-sweetland-65b76825/Join email blasts: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/Chapters:@0:00 Episode Teaser@2:09 Intro to Dr. Julie Sweetland, PhD, MA@3:01 Identify and Background@3:54 How small languages have big impacts on the world@7:50 How to Strategic Frame in public health?@18:50 Bachelors in Linguistics at Georgetown University@23:10 Loving linguistics@26:25 Undergrad Takeaways@30:45 PhD and Master in Linguistics at Stanford University@36:35 Language and School Equity@39:53 Director of Teaching & Learning at Center for Inspired Teaching@43:45 Education as a social determinant@44:14 Talking about Health Equity without saying Health Equity@47:25 Adjunct Professor of Georgetown University@49:52 Director of Learning at Frameworks Institute@54:30 Moving up to Senior Advisor role@56:40 Testing language for public health use@1:02:56 Future Predictions@1:04:30 Furious FiveSupport the showThanks for tuning in. Let's all work together towards a culture of health, wellbeing, and equity for all. ⭐⭐ SUBSCRIBE & Leave a 5-STAR REVIEW! ⭐⭐ Follow & Support:- Contribute to the show (one-time or monthly)- The Public Health Millennial on IG - The Public Health Millennial on LinkedIn - The Public Health Millennial Website- Omari Richins, MPH on LinkedIn- Support on The Public Health Store

We spend a lot of time trying to change other people's minds on all sorts of subjects.  Does it work — but just a little, or maybe not at all? How we attempt to shape the opinions of others matters, and as it turns out, there's a science behind how to do it well. Moira O'Neil, Senior Vice President of Research Interpretation at the FrameWorks Institute, joins us to explain how we can best communicate around contentious issues, and do so in a way that builds progressive change.

In this episode Julie Sweetland, PhD, a sociolinguist and senior advisor at the FrameWorks Institute, shares strategies for public messaging about vaccines. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also speak with Ryan Brewster, MD, about his research on the racial and ethnic diversity of pediatric clinical trials. For resources go to aap.org/podcast.

This episode gets to the heart of what our project, War Stories Peace Stories, is all about: How do you talk about peacebuilding in a way where people will pay attention and feel compelled to take action?Our guest Elizabeth Hume is Executive Director of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, the umbrella organization for NGOs working on conflict resolution, bridge-building, and reconciliation in the US and around the world. And she says, peacebuilders have been doing a poor job of communicating with the public—too academic, and not connecting with issues that concern everyday Americans. A few years ago, Liz called on our other guest, Andrew Volmert, for help with this messaging problem. Drew is Senior Vice President of Research for the FrameWorks Institute, a think tank that helps non-profit organizations reframe social issues to gain broader public understanding and acceptance.Drew and his team surveyed thousands of Americans to find out how they think about peace and peacebuilding, and how they'd respond to new ways of framing the issue. They came back with insights that peacebuilders, as well as journalists covering peace and conflict, can learn from.Download the FrameWorks Institute's reports on reframing peacebuilding:Building the Bridge to Peace: A Messaging Guide for PeacebuildersCommunicating about Peace and Peacebuilding: Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging RecommendationsFollow Liz Hume on Twitter: @Lizhume4peaceFollow the FrameWorks Institute on Twitter: @FrameWorksInstMaking Peace Visible is hosted by Jamil Simon and produced by Andrea Muraskin. The associate producer is Faith McClure. The podcast is a project of War Stories Peace Stories. Follow us on Twitter @warstoriespeace.Support our work with a tax-deductible donation.

As public health professionals and students, understanding how to effectively communicate and talk about public health and social issues is very important. This week's episode is a conversation with Dr. Julie Sweetland from the Frameworks Institute about framing public health communications. To learn more about this topic, visit: https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/ https://www.phrases.org/ A transcript of this episode is available at https://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/news-items/from-the-front-row-framing-public-health-communications-with-dr-julie-sweetland/ Have an question for our podcast crew or an idea for an episode? You can email them at CPH-GradAmbassador@uiowa.edu You can also support 'From the Front Row" by sharing this episode and others with your friends, colleagues, and social networks.

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a great time to talk about the way we message around child abuse and childhood adversities. The ways in which we've messaged about childhood adversity in the past may have served us very well, helping people come to terms with how important the topic is, the scope of the problem, and the lifelong impacts of it. But they may not be serving us very well now. What if, in describing the problem as enormous and making that the centerpiece of our messaging, we're making people think that the problem is intractable and they're powerless as an individual person to make a change? Or, in focusing on the stories of individual families in order to gain empathy for them, what we really seem to be implying to the public is that there's no room for public policy solutions, that this is a matter for each family to solve by themselves. We talked to Julie Sweetland, senior advisor at the FrameWorks Institute, about how to reframe childhood adversity.Topics in this episode:Origin story (2:21)Common communication traps (6:15)Threat of modernity (14:28)Key recommendations (19:09)Systemic racism (32:16)Hope and resilience (35:45)Collective responsibility (39:55)Evidence-based communication (42:00)For more information (43:52)Links:Julie Sweetland, Ph.D., is a sociolinguist and senior advisor at the FrameWorks Institute.ACEs: adverse childhood experiences“Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches,” by Julie Sweetland, FrameWorks Institute (February 16, 2021)Harvard University Center on the Developing ChildNational Scientific Council on the Developing ChildPrevent Child Abuse AmericaSocial CurrentCDC: Centers for Disease Control and PreventionZero to ThreeAscend at the Aspen InstituteBuilding Better ChildhoodsFor more information about National Children's Alliance and the work of Children's Advocacy Centers, visit our website at NationalChildrensAlliance.org. Or visit our podcast website at OneInTenPodcast.org. And join us on Facebook at One in Ten podcast.Support the show (https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/donate-now/)

This episode features a conversation with Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of FrameWorks Institute. FrameWorks plays a unique role in the social sector. It uses the science behind how human beings learn about and understand the world around them in order to position or frame social causes in ways that compel people to take positive action or change. For a number of years, FrameWorks has been developing strategies and resources to help educators and advocates reframe adolescence in ways that better call out aspects of exploration, discovery and openness, which balance out traditional messages of angst and risky behaviors.Nat and Jason talk about how FrameWorks got its start and the role it plays in the social sector, the research-based process it uses to develop compelling narratives for important issues and topics, and how FrameWorks has used that process to reframe adolescence. They also talk about some of the ways FrameWorks supports organizations and the broader field to use the most effective language and channels of communication to showcase the opportunity of adolescence, how to help parents and families balance their understanding and impressions of their own adolescent children, the power of positive examples and stories of adolescents, the role of framing in bridging polarization and the cultural and political divides in education as well as other domains, and some of the new areas FrameWorks is looking to expand into or go deeper in.Additional Readings and ResourcesFrameWorks InstituteStrategic Frame AnalysisⓇToolkit on reframing adolescence and adolescent developmentReframing Adolescence Blog SeriesNational Scientific Council on the Developing ChildThinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaheman, Random House, 2011Remaking Middle School is launching a Middle School Listening Tour! If you are a parent, teacher, administrator, youth development professional, policy maker, or youth advocate of middle grade students, we would love to hear from you. Please visit http://RemakingMiddleSchool.org and click “Sign Up” for the Listening Tour.

COMING SOON: As the public debates around history grow louder, it seems there's a gap between how history practitioners understand their work and what the public thinks history is. We need a more productive public conversation about history. But how do we get on the same page? Over the course of this series, we'll be speaking to historians, history communicators, and educators from around the country about the language we use to communicate history to the public. Hosted by Christy Coleman and Jason Steinhauer, this six-part series delves deep into a new, research-backed communication framework developed by FrameWorks Institute in partnership with the American Association for State and Local History, the National Council on Public History, and the Organization for American History. Reframing History is produced by Better Lemon Creative Audio for AASLH.Our guests on this series are (in order of appearance): Lacey Wilson, John Dichtl, Theresa L. Miller, William Convery, Stacey Watson, Sam Wineburg, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Heather Bruegl, Estevan Rael-Galvez, Susan Ferentions, Niya Bates, Eric Liu, Melanie Adams, Caroline Klibanoff, Steve Murray, and Jennifer Ortiz. Download the report and learn more about this research project at https://aaslh.org/reframing-history/

In this episode Patrick O'Shea, a senior researcher at the FrameWorks Institute, shares findings from the first in a series of studies about how the public perceives vaccines. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk to Nusheen Ameenuddin, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, Chair of the AAP Council on Communications and Media, about her work at the Mayo Clinic to educate immigrant populations about vaccines. For resources go to aap.org/podcast.

 Dr. Michael Baran is a social scientist and Senior Partner at inQUEST Consulting. He draws on his own research in cultural anthropology and cognitive psychology to inform his current diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work–his speaking engagements, writings, consulting, leadership development, workshop facilitation, and digital products. In addition to his inQUEST work, Dr. Baran has taught courses at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He has directed projects aimed at reducing racial disparities in education, health, housing, and criminal justice at the FrameWorks Institute and the American Institutes of Research. He is also the coauthor of the recently launched book Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions, cited in Forbes as one of the “11 Books To Read If You Want To Be A More Inclusive Leader.” Here he talks to Leaders Plus CEO and Founder, Verena Hefti, about tackling subtle acts of exclusion. We discuss:- What are subtle acts of exclusion, otherwise known as micro aggressions- How to have productive conversations about subtle acts of exclusion to ensure you feel heard- Practical tips to being more inclusive

Our guest today is Dr Nat Kendall-Taylor. Nat received his PhD in Anthropology at UCLA and in 2008 he joined the FrameWorks Institute, a non-profit research organisation in Washington, D.C., where he is now the CEO. FrameWorks uses rigorous social science methods to study how people understand complex social issues such as climate change, justice reform, and the impact of poverty on early childhood development. It develops evidence-based techniques that help researchers, advocates, and practitioners explain them more effectively.Nat explains what drew him from pre-med to anthropology. He did his PhD at UCLA because of the Anthropology department's "unapologetic focus on applied anthropology". His fieldwork in Kenya on children with seizure disorders explored the question of why so few sought biomedical treatment. His experience there, working with public health officials and others, demonstrated the value of understanding culture, the importance of multi-modal transdisciplinary perspectives, and the often "counterintuitive and frequently frustrating nature of communications when you're trying to do this kind of cross-cultural work".For the past 18 months, FrameWorks has worked on how to frame and communicate the social impacts of artificial intelligence.  The project came to FrameWorks through their long-term collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation when it became clear that some of their Grantees "had been having a lot of difficulty advancing their ideas" about algorithmic justice to the general public. The project has explored "the cultural models, the deep patterns of reasoning that either make it hard for people to appreciate the social implications" of AI as well as how to allow people to "engage with the issue in helpful and meaningful ways". The report will be publicly available on the FrameWorks website.As Nat explains, if the public "doesn't understand what the thing is [artificial intelligence] that you are claiming has pernicious negative impacts on certain groups of people, then it becomes very hard to have a meaningful conversation about what those are, who is affected".  This is compounded when "people don't really have a sense what structural or systemic racism means outside of a few issues, how that might work and what the outcomes of that might be."Nat says their work "suggests that it is a responsibility, it's an obligation, for those who understand how these things work to bring the public along, and to deepen people's understanding of how [for example] using algorithms to make resourcing decisions...can be seriously problematic".Nat recommends three books (Metaphors We Live By, Finding Culture in Talk, and Cultural Models in Language and Thought) and ends with a call for more anthropologists to work outside the academy where they can also do impactful work.Read an edited excerpt [PDF] of this interview.You can follow Nat on Twitter at @natkendallt and connect with him on LinkedIn. FrameWorks are on Twitter @FrameWorksInst. Update: FrameWorks published “Communicating About the Social Implications of AI: A FrameWorks Strategic B

Self-imposed ageism is real. I'd be interested in your thoughts about this quote - drop a comment below. In the words of Maggie Kuhn founder Gray Panthers, "The first myth is that old age is a disease, a terrible disease that you never admit you've got, so you lie about your age. Well, it's not a disease—it's a triumph because you've survived. Failure, disappointment, sickness, loss—you're still here." While I know Maggie Kuhn did great work founding the Gray Panthers and was actually a early advocate for not forcing people to retire at age 65 - and had an age-inclusive focus and advocated for college students to be taken more seriously - the thought of equating aging to mere survival of failure, disappointment, sickness and loss to only reflect one side of the coin of aging. Where is the celebration of major life milestones, her achievements, her “wins” in the third-third of her life?  It's one quote, from one moment in time, so I digress...but I hope this makes you think about how you think, and and how WE talk, about aging in 2021. Today's episode picks up with how should we be telling the story of aging? We'll talk more about Reframing Aging to continue the 2-part series of Aging: Words Matter at This Is Getting Old: Moving Toward An Age-Friendly World.  Tune in as Patricia D'Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP, further elucidates why words matter, particularly regarding how they may generate and promote discrimination, fear, and misconception around aging.   Part One Of 'Aging: Words Matter Part 2.' The Leaders of Aging Organizations collaborated with the FrameWorks Institute, which studied and reflected on the gap between popular views and misconceptions about aging.  They discussed ways to move to more positive narratives that "progress a perspective of older age as a time of challenges and possibilities, counteracting the fatalistic notion that aging outcomes couldn't be even better." How Should We Be Telling The Story Of Aging? We all take cognitive shortcuts to interpret and understand all sorts of experiences, thoughts, and feelings about aging. We take these for granted, and they are primarily automatic assumptions. However, remember that a compelling narrative builds understanding, shifts attitudes, and generates support for policy solutions.   Framing Is About Choices      Frames are choices about how information is presented, what to emphasize, how to explain it, and what to leave unsaid.  When a Frame "works," it shifts thinking in multiple ways— knowledge increases, attitudes improve, and policy support grows. Our goal with this project is to be able to get policies that support us as we age. - Patricia D'Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP What Should We Do? In our communications, we can make choices that activate productive cues/shortcuts to advance helpful models about aging. It's Important to tell the positive story of aging, but not just any story. We can get people to talk about aging and change the discourse on what people think about it. As we start to do that, ultimately, our goal t is to be able to get policies that support us as we age so we can get that discussion going and get people to start to think about aging differently. Consider the following for a compelling narrative: Why does this narrative matter? Include tested values that we know move the needle on thinking about aging How does this narrative work? Provide explanation   What can we do about it? Offer concrete systemic solutions.  Incorporate the values of Justice and Ingenuity Justice – Highlight that our society should treat older people as equals and ensure meaningful opportunities to contribute Ingenuity – Provide encouragements and positive reinforcements like saying, "We are resourceful and can find new and creative solutions for the challenges that come as we age." Avoid   Equating aging with decline  Cuing individualism  Portraying older people as other   Describing the aging of the population as a crisis  Talking about resources as fixed or finite   Advance ✔️ That context and environment shape decisions and outcomes   ✔️ The value of ingenuity ✔️ Inclusion and the use of "we." ✔️ An explanation that underlying social conditions influence   health, financial security, employment  ✔️ Systemic solutions   Part Two of 'Aging: Words Matter Part 2.' Research Findings: Word Choice Matters! Words like "seniors" and “the elderly" drive thinking that we are less competent as we age. This terms are “othering” rather than being inclusive.  Using words like “older adult” or “older people” - but realize that in using these terms, an 18 year old may think about people in their 50's. References to “older adults” generally call to mind someone in their mid-fifties, which doesn't quite get us as advocates to the age range we want to address “Older people” evokes people aged 60 or older and at the same time brings with it the most positive, least paternalistic view of the age described in the public mind.   So experts need to communicate with the public to make sure that the thinking for Americans is positive about aging because it can shorten your lifespan, and you end up with more health problems because of it.  Impact Of Reframing Aging With AP/ AMA/ APA Style Guides   Adopting the concepts of Reframing Aging will improve how we hear, read about aging in a way that again cues the more productive thinking about aging. The American Medical Association (AMA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and even the Associated Press (AP) have updated their style manuals to adopt language around aging. So instead of using the word "seniors" and "elderly," they refer to older people or be specific about the age group. “The first step in fixing ageism is to raise awareness.” - Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN Role Of Implicit Bias Around Aging   Defining Ageism and Implicit Bias?   Ageism is the discrimination of any person of any age—the tendency to regard older people as debilitating. We have some subconscious thoughts about that. It starts when we're very young about taking in information about aging and older people.  Consequently, it becomes thoughts and feelings that you have that you don't even realize. Such thoughts and feelings are implicit biases. We have an implicit bias about many things, but it's the internalized bias tied to how we want to process so much information.    Implicit Biases Can Be Harmful   Implicit biases can be harmful and challenging for all of us to think about that. Some of the things that we work on are we help people develop "well-framed messages." We ask people what they think about aging. They give us their answers which are more around those negative models that we talk about—us versus them, the fatalism, the individualism. We read them well-framed sentences about aging, and a couple of minutes later, we see the difference in how the same people respond. Conclusively, our research shows that communicating a positive understanding of the aging process mitigates sources of implicit bias. Join the cause of Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World by checking on the following helpful resources: Call out ageism when you see it or hear it - Words Matter Practice using the tips on the Quick Start Guide Learn (Getting Started)about the Swamp of Public Opinion on Aging and other research on the Reframing Aging Initiative webpage (www.reframingaging.org)   Request a workshop or presentation for your organization Associated Press (AP), American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) Style Guide recommendations    How to access training Subscribe to the Caravan newsletter About Patricia D'Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP: Patricia M. "Trish" D'Antonio, BSPharm, MS, MBA, BCGP, is GSA's vice president of professional policy affairs. In this role, she is responsible for managing the Society's relationships with other organizations in the aging arena, leading major Society programs and projects, and developing a strategy for future growth of the National Academy on an Aging Society (GSA's nonpartisan public policy institute). She is also the project director for the Reframing Aging Initiative, a long-term social change endeavor designed to improve the public's understanding of what aging means and the many ways that older people contribute to our society. About Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN: I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing ('96) and Master of Science in Nursing ('00) as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) School of Nursing (SON). I genuinely enjoy working with the complex medical needs of older adults. I worked full-time for five years as an FNP in geriatric primary care across many long-term care settings (skilled nursing homes, assisted living, home, and office visits), then transitioned into academic nursing in 2005, joining the faculty at UNCW SON lecturer. I obtained my Ph.D. in Nursing and a post-master's Certificate in Nursing Education from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing ('11). I then joined the faculty at Duke University School of Nursing as an Assistant Professor. My family moved to northern Virginia in 2015 and led to me joining the George Washington University (GW) School of Nursing faculty in 2018 as a (tenured) Associate Professor. I am also the Director of the GW Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities. Please find out more about her work at https://melissabphd.com/.

On this episode, NSVRC's Laura Palumbo and Sally J. Laskey continue their discussion with Dr. Julie Sweetland, Senior Advisor at the FrameWorks Institute, about her 2021 report, Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches. They share guidance on how to talk about community- and policy-level strategies for prevention. For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

How we think about adversity experienced in childhood matters. On this episode, NSVRC's Laura Palumbo and Sally J. Laskey talk with Dr. Julie Sweetland, Senior Advisor at the FrameWorks Institute, about her 2021 report, Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches, and how it connects with our research on messages about preventing sexual harassment, abuse, and assault. For more information and transcripts visit www.nsvrc.org/podcasts. 

Alexis Bunten, (Aleut/Yup’ik) has served as a manager, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over 15 years. After receiving a BA in Art History at Dartmouth College, Alexis returned to Alaska, where she worked at the Sealaska Heritage Institute, and the Alaska Native Heritage Center in programming. Subsequently, Alexis earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at UCLA, and has served as the Project Ethnographer for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project, and as a Senior Researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Alexis is an accomplished researcher, writer, media-maker, and curriculum developer. She has published widely about Indigenous and environmental issues, with articles in American Indian Quarterly, the Journal of Museum Education and American Ethnologist.Her 2015 book, “So, how long have you been Native?” Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide,” won the Alaska Library Association Award for its originality, and depth. In addition to writing, Alexis has contributed to several Indigenous-themed productions, including co-producing and writing the script for a documentary nominated for the Native American Film Awards. Alexis has developed educational material for both formal and informal learning environments including university level-courses as well as lifelong learner curriculum. Alexis is also a panelist this week on “The Indigenous Rights of Nature,” a panel discussion organized by Vision Maker Media in partnership with Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program. More about Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program can be found at bioneers.org. The Vision Maker Media panel is available on Facebook and YouTube starting Thursday, April 22. More at visionmakermedia.orgNiya DeGroat is a Diné fashion writer and multidisciplinary creative based in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is originally from Mariano Lake, New Mexico and a citizen of the Navajo Nation. He is also the former Director of Multimedia for Phoenix Fashion Week with years of fashion show production under his belt, including mentoring emerging designers and models. In May 2020, Niya obtained his master’s degree in fashion journalism from the Academy of Art University. As a journalist, he aims to present an Indigenous perspective on fashion by elevating the discussion around contemporary Native fashion. His work has been published in Indian Country Today, Academy Art U News, Fashion School Daily, and Native Max Magazine. Tiokasin and Niya will be discussing Niya’s Feb. 1, 2021 column in Indian Country Today — “Wait a minute America! ‘This is stolen land’: Joe Biden’s inauguration missed the mark by including the tone deaf American folk song”: https://bit.ly/3v5DnNxProduction Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: Feels Like Summer CoverArtist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)CD: Summer Pack (2018)Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator MusicYouTube Link: https://youtu.be/izFvp_JXaqg(00:34:15)3. Song Title: This Land is Our LandArtist: Todd SniderCD: Songs for the Daily Planet (1994)Label: MCA Records(00:57:32)

Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. began his tenure as the eleventh Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in September 2015. He is the first African American chancellor to lead a non-HBCU in the UNC System. Chancellor Gilliam brings to UNCG a wealth of experience from a career that spans more than 30 years in higher education. During that time, he was Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs as well as a longtime Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at UCLA, where his research focused on strategic communications, public policy, electoral politics, and racial and ethnic politics. At UNCG, Dr. Gilliam has not only led the campus to record growth, but has also helped build a solid foundation for a very bright future at the university -- from working with legislators to secure funding for a $105M STEM building; to establishing a Millennial Campus designation, which will create the conditions that will drive growth in areas like health and wellness and the creative and performing arts; to increasing diversity among faculty and administration; and to working with leaders on this campus and beyond on innovative student success initiatives which have been lauded by national foundations and press. UNC Greensboro is one of the seventeen campuses of The University of North Carolina, the birthplace of public higher education in America. Administered by President Peter Hans and overseen by The UNC Board of Governors, each campus is headed by its own chancellor and Board of Trustees. The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina elected Dr. Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., as the eleventh Chancellor of UNC Greensboro (UNCG) on May 22, 2015. Chancellor Gilliam brings to UNCG and the UNC System a wealth of experience from a career that spans more than 30 years in higher education. He took office on September 8, 2015. During his tenure, UNCG has surpassed a record 20,000 students; grown its endowment, research enterprise, and overall facilities and campus infrastructure; significantly increased its fundraising; and elevated the presence, reputation, and real-world impact of the largest university in the North Carolina Triad region. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Gilliam served as Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs for seven years and was a longtime UCLA Professor of Public Policy and Political Science. His research focused on strategic communications, public policy, electoral politics, and racial and ethnic politics. As Dean of UCLA Luskin, Dr. Gilliam shepherded a $50 million naming gift and launched and executed an ambitious strategic plan and capital campaign, establishing the school as a regional leader in addressing and finding solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. VISIONARY AND CIVIC LEADER Dr. Gilliam has not only led UNCG to record growth, but he has also helped build a solid foundation for a very bright future at the university. In his first year at UNCG, Dr. Gilliam worked with board members and key leaders to assure UNCG’s inclusion on the Connect NC bond referendum, which voters ultimately passed, securing $105 million in funding for a new nursing and STEM building. The new building is scheduled to open by Spring 2021. He worked with campus leaders to secure a transformative gift from community leader and philanthropist Tobee Kaplan, who donated $5 million to name the Leonard J. Kaplan Center for Wellness. The gift is only the third of this size in UNCG’s history. Dr. Gilliam led the effort to secure Millennial Campus designation from its Board of Governors, creating the conditions that will drive growth in areas like health and wellness and the creative and performing arts for years to come on campus and in the broader community. Dr. Gilliam is a senior fellow with the FrameWorks Institute (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions), where he has contributed to research and training on health care, racial equity, early child development, youth and rural issues, and criminal justice. In 2018, he was named chair of the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum. Additionally, he serves on the boards of the Union Square Campus, Gateway University Research Park, North Carolina Campus Compact, and the FrameWorks Institute, as well as the Executive Committee for the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. AWARD-WINNING EDUCATOR Prior to his appointment as Dean at UCLA, Dr. Gilliam served as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor of Community Partnerships in the University of California system from 2002 to 2008. As Associate Vice Chancellor, he championed UCLA’s civic engagement by supporting engaged scholarship and community collaborations to improve the quality of life for residents of Los Angeles. Dr. Gilliam is the author of Farther to Go: Readings and Cases in African-American Politics (Harcourt Brace), and his work has been published in many leading academic journals. He is frequently interviewed or cited by national and international news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Huffington Post, and the BBC. Dr. Gilliam was honored with the 2015 Upton Sinclair Award by the Liberty Hill Foundation for his renowned work advancing civic engagement and commitment to issues of equity. Twice nominated for UCLA’s Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, he has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grinnell College, and the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and was a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University. In addition, he taught at Columbia University, Fisk University, and — with former Vice President Al Gore — at Middle Tennessee State University. In 2017, Dr. Gilliam was named by Triad Business Journal as one of the region’s Most Admired CEOs — a group of top executives recognized for exceptional leadership in business, and for their philanthropic endeavors. Dr. Gilliam received his B.A. from Drake University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Iowa. Dr. Gilliam has been married for 26 years to Jacquelean (“Jacquie”) Gilliam, most recently the Executive Director of Scholarships & Student Support Initiatives and Campus-Wide Initiatives at UCLA and now a philanthropic consultant and active community volunteer and leader. They are parents to Ariel Gilliam and Franklin D. “Trey” Gilliam, III.   Show Highlight Results of the Great turnaround of Moss Street Partnership How to lead without  the built in advantages Integrated Student Success Model is #1 in NC using these essential questions  Inclusive Excellence- More access doesn’t mean less quality Discipline and creativity can coexist with this leadership attribute Improve the life chances for children by teaching the art of being a student Tips to block out the noise and pressure to bend to the mean Avoid toxic inefficient teachers by hiring these 3 attributes “I turned to one of my staff members and I said, "these kids just don't have a chance in hell." By that I meant their life chances were so daunting and it was so disheartening because it didn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be that way. It's all about the society's will. The public's will to invest in the education of a chosen people and understand that long term sustainability of the society is going to rest on how we educate and take care of the next generations.” -Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr.    Full Transcript Chancellor Gilliam Transcript   Chancellor Franklin Gilliam Jr’s Resources & Contact Info: TwitterGilliam (@UNCGChancellor) Social Media Directory - University Communications LinkedIn   Looking for more? Read The Better Leaders Better Schools Roadmap Join “The Mastermind” Read the latest on the blog   Show Sponsors HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Transform how you lead to become a resilient and empowered change agent with Harvard’s online Certificate in School Management and Leadership. Grow your professional network with a global cohort of fellow school leaders as you collaborate in case studies bridging the fields of education and business. Apply today at http://hgse.me/leader. 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In this episode, the Hairpin team speaks with Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute—a think tank that helps organizations more effectively communicate about a wide variety of social issues. While many of us in the social sector work to advance aspirational solutions to systemic problems, there are deep and durable myths that run under all of our work and challenge our efforts to build support and make change. We hear from Nat about these myths—individualism, fatalism, tribalism—and how they characterize the cultural divide that the recent U.S. election exposed. In a sector whose success depends on stakeholders coming together, how do social advocates navigate this fragmented moment? And is our national polarization as deep and intractable as we are led to believe? Learn more about FrameWorks: www.frameworksinstitute.org

Age-Friendly Health Systems: History and Overview "Age-friendly Health Systems create a system of care where there's good communication, good leadership, and information systems that track across (care settings)."— Alice Bonner, PhD, RN With nine years to go before the last Baby Boomers reach age 65, our nation is on a short timeline to develop the infrastructure needed to provide quality care for older adults in our hospitals and health care systems.  With that vision in mind, a system of "age-friendly environments" is emerging from the collaborative efforts between the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA). The first podcast interview for This is Getting Old: Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World was with Dr. Terry Fulmer who has led development of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative (Episode 3). Building on that interview, in this episode, Dr. Alice Bonner shares the history and an overview of the Age-Friendly Health Systems. The goal of the age-friendly health system is to guide development of an infastructure required for hospitals and health systems to deliver evidence-based care for all - not just for older adults. Discover how the system empowers all health care settings to implement the 4M’s Framework to facilitate care for older adults. Part One of 'Age-Friendly Health Systems: Evidence-Based Care for All Older Adults'  Age-Friendly Health Systems: A History And Overview The Age-Friendly Health Systems: Evidence-Based Care for All Older Adults offers healthcare systems opportunities to help older adults residing within them. The model further emphasizes that societies must strive to counter age-based stigma, referred to as ageism, towards elderlies. This is to encourage independence for older people and to implement strategies that promote healthy aging. The idea came about from several organizations and individuals who look at the current health system, the current system of communities and public health, and how healthcare facilities are run.  They brought together expert clinicians, researchers, and people who spent their lives working with older adults. They started doing a big review of the literature and combed through several references. They've found that there are 90 elements of care guided explicitly toward older people's best care. They did lots of brainstorming, had meetings, and repeatedly went over the literature until they got down from 90 elements to 13 elements. Then everybody said, "13 things are just too many things to ask nurses and doctors and social workers to do". So they got together in a room and didn't come out until they had called it down to four elements, and those four elements all start with the letter M. What Matters? Medications, Mobility, and Mentation. "Age-friendly health systems allow people to customize; it promotes leadership; it requires leadership. And not just a medical director, but nursing leadership, social work, leadership, pharmacy leadership. It's about the interprofessional team."- Alice Bonner, PhD, RN  Age-Friendly Care – 4Ms Framework The 4M's are the core practices that clinicians believed to make a difference in administering care. Alice emphasized that health systems should implement these 4Ms accurately. According to her, "By addressing these 4Ms, we're talking about assessing people and then acting on those assessments. It isn't enough to do an assessment and put a piece of paper in the chart. What you want to do is say, "Okay, how can we act on this?" The Age-Friendly Care Systems 4Ms frameworks evolve on the following concepts:   What Matters   Know and align care with each older adult's specific health outcome goals and care preferences, including end-of-life care and across settings of care.    Medication   If medication is necessary, use age-friendly medication that does not interfere with What Matters to the older adult, mobility, or mentation across the setting of care.   Mentation   Prevent, identify, treat, and manage dementia, depression, and delirium across care settings.   Mobility   Ensure that older adults move safely every day to maintain function and do What Matters. Part Two of ''Age-Friendly Health Systems: Evidence-Based Care for All Older Adults’  The Principles Behind Age-Friendly Health System   Alice further stressed that most people are not thinking about ageism and includes stereotyped beliefs that discriminate against older adults. It’s not widely recognized, until it happens to you or someone you love.  Age-friendly systems look at how workers at health systems speak, the language they use, the references they make, and how they handle ageism and get rid of it. The Frameworks Institute has several resources and reports to help you learn more about how to effectively counter ageism. That is the primary reason why the forerunners of the 4Ms framework of the age-friendly systems anchored the system on the following principles. The 4Ms are set to be integrated into care for every adult ages 65 and older during every inpatient stay for over a year in a primary care setting.   Age-Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms are a framework to organize the efficient, reliable delivery of effective care with older adults.  The framework is intended to be an infrastructure that builds on the care you provide today.  Age-Friendly Health Systems are designed to close the gap between the evidence-based care that we know works and the reliable practice of that care with every older adult in every interaction. "We started with five health systems. We're now at over a thousand health systems across the country, which is pretty miraculous for a three or four-year project. And the goal is to make it not just a project but to make it sustainable in the way we deliver care everywhere, all the time, every day." — Alice Bonner, PhD, RN Why Should Health Systems Implement The 4Ms Framework? As of December 2020, over 1,000 hospitals, outpatient practices, retail-clinics, and post-acute long-term care communities have been recognized as working to become Age-Friendly Health Systems. Having described a detailed 4Ms approach in their setting, 178 of these have been identified as Committed to Care Excellence as exemplar sites working toward the 4Ms reliable practice. What Are Participants Saying? There's always measurement involved in being recognized as an age-friendly health system. You or your organization can participate by signing up and joining an active community.  Here are what some of the participants are saying about 4M's Framework of the Age-friendly System.  "My hospital joined the movement and was recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System Participant after sharing with IHI how we are putting the 4Ms into practice. I'm going to encourage my doctor's office to join, too. " "IHI recognized us as leaders in the movement, and as an Age-Friendly Health System Committed to Care Excellence when we shared three months of data on the number of older adults, we cared for with the 4Ms." About Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN: I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing ('96'96) and Master of Science in Nursing ('00'00) as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) School of Nursing (SON). I genuinely enjoy working with the complex medical needs of older adults. I worked full-time for five years as FNP in geriatric primary care across many long-term care settings (skilled nursing homes, assisted living, home, and office visits), then transitioned into academic nursing in 2005, joining the faculty at UNCW SON as a lecturer. I obtained my PhD in Nursing and a post master's Certificate in Nursing Education from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing ('11'11) and then joined the Duke University School of Nursing faculty as an Assistant Professor. My family moved to northern Virginia in 2015 and led to me joining the faculty at George Washington University (GW) School of Nursing in 2018 as a (tenured) Associate Professor. I am also the Director of the GW Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities. Find out more about her work at https://melissabphd.com/.

  The FrameWorks Institute has been around for 20 years and they currently have a staff of around 25 professionals, comprised largely of PhD-level social scientists. Nat describes the team as a motley crew of disenchanted academics. Interestingly, they really don’t have folks in the team who come from a communications background, which is a bit ironic considering they focus on communications. Nat describes FrameWorks as a non-profit, communications, social science research think tank. They are mission-driven to use social science research to support the communications capacity of the non-profit sector.  They do this by focusing on three areas:  1) they study, and are interested in, how people think about complicated social and scientific issues — it’s not about what people say or how they answer polling questions but, rather, it’s about how people use common cultural ways of understanding to make meaning of complicated social issues;  2) they look at ‘framing’ and explore how presenting information in different ways influences how people think, feel and are willing to act — this is the science of framing; and  3) they take results from this research and partner with organisations that are active in key sectors and they use these findings to improve these organisations’ communications. There’s an overarching observation Nat makes clear early on: don’t assume that you are your audience. Nat notes that it is extremely common for people who are communicating about specific issues to make the erroneous assumption that they are their audiences.  Data and evidence don’t necessarily make for effective communications. Nat asks, how many times have we seen presentations that start with data, have another piece of data, then include some charts and graphs about data, and then conclude with yet more data.   We assume that this data layering speaks to our audience the way it does to us.  But this is by no means the case. Different people may need different elements in order to be convinced.  Always keep in mind that you are not your audience. One needs to draw a distinction between data and various other aspects that activate common, widely-shared values. We also have a tendency to think of misperception as being analogous to people being wrong, or incorrect or simply unable to understand. This is dangerous. It’s not necessarily that people are wrong but, oftentimes, that people simply have developed different ways of thinking about certain issues or understanding the world around them.  We hear how there’s a need to tweak the message to local cultures. The holy grail would be a single message that simply works all over the world — one size fits all. But in reality, while you may have a point you want to make to everyone in the world, how you make that specific point is going to have to be honed and made particular to given regions and countries, cultures and subcultures. You need to acknowledge the role that culture plays in how people think and process information. Nat then sheds light on FrameWorks’ fascinating partnership with Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child and its director, Prof Jack Shonkoff. This collaboration stretches back further than a decade.  We hear how FrameWorks helped the Center to translate complex research on early childhood development into highly effective messaging that helps a mass audience understand its meaning and helps increase awareness, change attitudes and drive forward positive behaviours.   We hear of the development of specific phrases, such as ‘brain architecture’, ‘toxic stress’, and ‘serve and return interaction’, that were created to help research findings from the field of early childhood development reach and impact a broad, international audience.   While these phrases seem fairly straightforward and sensible, Nat notes the work that went into developing these concepts took a great deal of effort and extensive development and testing; followed by extensive pushing and pulling between academics around how best to incorporate them.  Nat expands on these key steps, providing rich insight into the nuts and bolts of this process. Nat’s key takeaway: firstly, it’s important to realise that you are not your audience. As a mantra, if you can repeat that, you’ll fall into fewer traps and you’ll make better decisions as a communicator. And the second piece revolves around the role of ‘framing’ in the process of change-making. Keep in mind that what you know is important, but there’s the bit about how you say what you know — the significance of framing. Realise that it’s not just about ‘what’ you know, but it’s about ‘how’ you communicate it in order to have impact with your information. Visit The Do One Better! Podcast website for guest bios, episode notes and useful links. Please click the subscribe button on your favourite podcast app and share widely with others — thank you!  

Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute. He oversees the organisation's pioneering and research-based approach to strategic communications.  In this episode, Nathaniel shared how we can reframe social issues such as social housing. He used ‘pronoun analysis' as an example to help reinforce stereotypes and stigmatisation. He emphasised that all choices have a fact and can be used as a strategy.  “All the choices we make: language, images, verbs, pronoun are not adornment, not just concept but they are actually influence”-Nat

In this episode of the Homeless World Cup Podcast we speak to Gavin Yates, Chief Executive of Homeless Action Scotland. Homeless Action Scotland is the national membership organisation for homelessness in Scotland and aims to influence and support effective policy and practice to tackle homelessness. They work with local authorities, voluntary organisations, housing associations, health bodies, and individuals. Recently, HAS agreed to work with Crisis around the FrameWorks Institute’s “Reframing Homelessness” report, which aims to examine public perceptions of homelessness and how it can be better communicated. Paul and Adam speak to Gavin about how language around homelessness affects public perception, why we really aren’t as “woke” as we think, and what can be done to lessen stigma. If you would like to donate, please visit our donation page here. Thank you!

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Episode 105: “The Science of Storytelling” features Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute, which works to change the conversation on social issues. We discussed how to get people to engage in conversations about an uncomfortable topic—child sexual abuse. What should we change about our own messaging to give people hope that they can do something about it? We also discussed a new research project into communication strategies on this issue, and when we might learn the results.Topics in this episode:· The most surprising result of research into child sexual abuse. (1:47)· How we talk about the issue can be a problem. What should we stop doing? (5:11)· Pivoting—our biggest communication challenge. (13:28)· When people think monsters are the root cause, what’s the solution? (18:42)· Balanced messaging. (21:17)· Talk about progress without losing urgency. (26:25)· When death won’t do it in driving a sense of urgency, what will? (29:38)· The “snapping” myth. (33:05)· Current research on communication strategies—and when we’ll get results. (37:43)· Summing it all up. (41:36)· Our next episode topic. (43:42) Links:FrameWorks InstituteCrimes Against Children Research CenterDr. Elizabeth Letourneau at the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Letourneau was our very first guest on One in Ten, in the episode on “Child Abuse as a Public Health Issue.” Support the show (https://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/donate-now/)

Across the country, rural and urban communities are feeling the impact of the affordable housing shortage whether that's due to aging housing stock, community displacement, gentrification, or a lack of investment. And yet, so much work still needs to be done to build public support for affordable housing policies and programs. On this episode of Building Blocks, Dr. Tiffany Manuel of CaseMade introduces her work with the FrameWorks Institute on increasing support for the housing movement through strategic messaging and helping people understand why quality, affordable housing is vital to our collective prosperity, especially in the upcoming election. Follow @DrTiffanyManuel on Twitter and learn more about her work at thecasemade.com

Today we look at the myths or fears on aging and discover that there are things we can do to offset the aging process as well as discover the purpose, drive and enjoyment in our lives while we age.  Everyone is different, different life experiences, circumstances, environments, which makes every body and mind different.  It is an inevitable fact, we will grow old or older (or die), right?  Most people don’t look at aging until they have to, until they see wrinkles or find they are not moving like they used to. The word aging, promotes many emotions, both negative and positive. Words like been around the block, silver haired, blue haired, white haired, no spring chicken, on your last leg, fizzlin’ out, slowin’ down, becoming older, declining, fermenting, maturing, stale, getting on, senior, over-the-hill, retired, advancing, evolving. I tried to do it in one Pilates breath. Aging in America carriers weight. Let’s start with myths? A myth is a widely held but a false belief. It’s where we get mythology. When it comes to aging, myths have shaped our outlook, as well as our fears. The Frameworks Institute is an organization that identifies cultural norms that the public used to base an opinion or a fear about. A cultural norm is an attitude learned from family or friends that guide and often determine our behavior. This institute looks at research and a cultural norm and compares it to what is true and what is a myth. They’ve done that with aging. The Frameworks Institute have categorized aging like a Health Swamp. They explain it like a murky, dark, unpredictable, never knowing what’s underneath the mucky waters in America. Their biggest discovery is that our culture has developed ideas about aging that is not necessarily true and these mistruths have guided us into developing fears, and actually laws sometimes. Myths are a powerful thing. What guides these myths is information from social media, articles and ads in magazines, TV commercials, movies, even the mirror. Remember these not necessarily truth, they are myths. Today we’re going to talk about the first 3 myths according to the Frameworks Institute. Most older people will end up in nursing homes and will eventually lose their memory. Older people are completely responsible for how they age. There’s nothing to look forward to in aging.   I asked my friends about aging who are close to retirement age, threw it out on social media and tried digging deep for everyone’s opinion as to their own aging ideas. Most were brutally honest, most felt that aging was a real trip and they are attempting to embrace it will better attitude, more sex and movement. Everyone spoke of FEAR, as well, in particular, the three mentioned myth-fears. I’ve had older people around me my whole life. All my grandparents lived to be well in their 90s, highly productive and moving, and I’ve taken an interest in aging. I’m in an age study myself. My interest is aging started in my 30s when a conversation came up about the value of aging with my twelve year old daughter. We read a book entitled The Giver, by Lois Lowry. A 1994 controversial Newbery Medal book award. It’s an unusual book about community and characters, which you think at first is a utopia, where everything is perfect. You of course later discover that it is a dystopian society, the opposite of utopia, a society that dehumanizes their people, where there is no memory, no color, no choices in who you are or what you’ll be, no climate, no emotions and if you’re different, or not up to the norm that society thinks you should be, you were RELEASESED. They released children who were different, slower developers and the old, the aged. You later discovered that being RELEASED meant you were killed, erased. You did not fit in. My daughter was disgusted, she had two grandmas that epitomized strength. It put a light on aging for me. We can lose purpose when we age or lose our way briefly and often it’s due to fear. That’s when I decided I was not going to age the way everybody else ages. Wasn’t going to pay attention to fear. So I came up with my HALFTIME plan. That’s where I am today. It’s HALFTIME. What’s halftime? Just think basketball. Where you go to the locker room and discuss the front half of your game and plan for the next half. Well I am at halftime, a time where I can look at the front end of my life and all the life lessons, constrained choices and gifts I was granted. I can look at the next half and can then focus the best on the last half of my life where I had the complete choice or for the most part. I’m there now, at halftime. Aging is not easy, to see yourself change. The amazing part about aging and HALFTIME is you have the CHOICE in being the best you can be. Is there some fear? You bet. We can’t predict the future but we can mold it! The 1st myth and fear that the Framework Institute mentioned is that you end up in a nursing home. Only about 20% go to nursing homes to finish out their lives. That does not include people who have surgeries and go there for rehab. Science also tells us that cognitive impairment or memory loss doesn’t decline until age 85? Only 50% experience a decline. The problem is we expect it to decline which pushes the cart before the horse. We see information telling us it should decline as we age. It’s the same rate as most age groups. Think about how many times our child forgot their lunchbox, homework, backpacks, then think about the times you forget something! The really cool part about aging is you get to have selective memory. We are increasing our existence on earth in age, but not necessarily increasing our health as we age. Falls are still the top problem for older people but as whopping obesity issue is right behind falls. Obesity in ages 65 to 74 is the highest than any other group in America because of seniors eating pre-packaged foods and slowing down movement. The 21stcentury is presenting new challenges for scientists. The US Census Bureau predicts by 2030 that people 65 and over will inhabit 25% of earth’s inhabitants and will edge out children in population. They anticipate a demand for health care. In America, the general attitude is that we worship youth in our society, we don’t worship aging. Generally we don’t look at it until we have to look at it square in the eyes. Speaking with two experts on aging, they commented on this very same issue quite frankly. One was from America that had live in Africa, and she stated even though with Africa’s health crisis and govt. issues, one thing they did well was celebrate their elders and take care of them. The other, whose parents were from Japan said the same exact thing. They embraced their elderly and honored them. So is it America’s culture? When we get older does our value decrease? Generally speaking. The 2nd myth spoke of how older people are completely responsible for their aging. Genetics, according to the Centenarian studies, is the primary factor for aging fit and healthy. You don’t really have a choice as to who your patents are. Research says that the more education you have and use, the better health and fulfillment you’ll have as you age. While genetics and education play a part, it’s the functional part that provides independence as we age. It’s also the part we control. Research shows that the changes attributing to aging are actually caused largely by disuse of the body or lack of movement. Movement or exercise is not a fountain of youth, but it’s a good long drink of vitality! We need to move as we age. It’s estimated that in the last thirty years, neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is designed to improve with age. Not only can our bodies move, our brains can further develop too. Let’s look at the 3rd myth that there is nothing to look forward to as we age. Now, because I’m at halftime, I can take a different attitude about the ending of my life. If I’ve learned anything in the 1sthalf of my life, it’s this – “what you BELIEVE carries you”. Knowing and living by this has offset the mindset of aging. If you ask the 90 to 100 year old’s that still run, ski, hike, and move religiously their optimism and attitude carry them. For me at Halftime, I’ve learned how to be more optimistic, which is good because optimists live seven years longer than pessimists. And guess what? Optimism can be learned. So at halftime I use what I all a Hi-5, promoting the 5 Cs for the sole purpose of bettering ME and bettering YOU too as we all age. All 5 of these C words are woven into the concept of volunteerism to some degree. To volunteer, to give of yourself. Volunteerism helps you keep your eyes open wide to aging and to the choices you have! They stand for: Community– Many move to what is referred to as BLUE ZONES so they can be in communities that are just senior like. Research shows that if you are in a community of any kind, even creating one through volunteerism, makes your health better, increases your movement more, improves your life and offsets the aging process. Companionship– Having a family, friends to commune with research shows that you establish more wholesome relationships, which offsets aging and loneliness. You create companionship when you volunteer. Conversing– This is probably the most powerful piece according to science. Having a conversation with someone else is one of the biggest brain developers and remember our brains do continue to develop if we choose it to. Multi-cultural conversations, multi-generational conversations and even talking to yourself is found to increase your brain’s capacity. Core – I’m talking about the core of your body – your muscles, movement, strength training, the activities that get your blood flowing kind of movement. When you speak to highly functional 90 to 100 year old’s. They are always moving and exercising. Your body’s functions run smoothing when you move. Our bodies have the capabilities of getting better and stronger even at age 90! When you have a community with some level of companionship, you’re conversing daily and are actively moving it will lead to the 5th C. Confidence – Confidence means being comfortable with your own power. That’s one of the sweetness’s of growing older. If you are able to grow older with solid lifestyle choices, developing good habits of movement and developing your brain, you grow into yourself, finding an inner peace and happiness. Are there fears? Sometimes, but seeking, being aware of what we are capable of doing and being as we age, creates a better, more confident person. Growing older can mean you’re growing better and wise…BELIEVE IT! Contact Restoring Cores at restoringcores1@gmail.comfor your own free copy of the High 5 at Halftime pdf and with any additional questions or information.

We regularly use symbols and metaphors to represent ideas and concepts that we can't necessarily see.  In this episode, we talk with cognitive scientist and researcher, Dr. Rose Hendricks of FrameWorks Institute, about why the words and metaphors we use matter.  Join us as Dr. Hendricks details how we think about time, space, and science in terms of language as tools for comprehension.  

Transcript available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS6UY1EtpADgTpW4koZC7tVHwoMehiQacvDhqmsTH5TJIbWrYOYeak28KG74bl0q78iCEOrWJSmh1Cu/pubArticles and other items we references for this episode:Attitudes about Aging_ A Global Perspective _ Pew Research Center, Jan 13, 2014Discrimination and negative attitudes about ageing are bad for your health, Sept 28, 2016Improving Attitudes Regarding the Elderly Population _ The Gerontologist _ Oxford Academic, Aug 2001Thinking Differently About Aging_ Changing Attitudes Through the Humanities _ The Gerontologist _ Oxford Academic, Aug 2015American Attitudes Toward the Elderly, from Life in the USA_ The Complete Guide for Immigrants and Americans7 Cultures That Celebrate Aging And Respect Their Elders _ HuffPost, Feb 25, 2014How Do Different Cultures Take Care of Seniors_, Oct 10, 2016What it's like to grow old, in different parts of the world _ TED Blog, Nov 25, 2013Growing Old in Ancient Cultures _ Psychology Today, Mar 22, 2017Communication, Aging, and Culture - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, Sept 2017Teenagers_ A 1944 Photo Essay on a New American Phenomenon _ Time.com, Sep 28, 2013Why Young People Need To Look At Older People Differently, Jan 21, 2016Changing the NarrativeIdeas for Kids to Dress Up Like Old PeopleThis Chair RocksHidden Brain: What Our Google Searches Reveal About Who We Really AreImplicit Bias TestTags: ageism, age, elders, stereotypes, aging, boomers, millenials, innovation, changing_the_narrative, public_perception, FrameWorks_ Institute, rage, prejudice, community, memory, workplace_shortage, Colorado_encore_network, momentum, census, aging_population, Gen-X, Gen-Z, dependent, robert_butler, 1969, invisible, ageist_attitudes, Ashton_Applewhite, dementia, blame, context, affordable_housing, awareness, Mercedes_Benz, factory, profitable, grandparents, intergenerational, 100_days_of_school, implicit_bias, ant_man_and_the_wasp★ Support this podcast ★

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Marissa Fond from the FrameWorks Institute walks us through some evidence-based communications strategies for talking about public health informatics. If you enjoy the show, please consider rating us on iTunes! If you have suggestions for future episodes, contact Inform Me, Informatics at podcast@phii.org. Music credit: Kevin MacLeod/Incompetech.

Sometimes, we are frustrated by public opposition to our noble work in afforable housing and spin our wheels trying to find a way around it. Rather than discount the opposition, Enterprise Community Partners and The Frameworks Institute tackled the problem head on to find out the values behind some of the opposing views of providing affordable housing and how we can change the conversation around housing. On this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast brought to you by Eden Housing, we'll dive into which messages about affordable housing work with the public and which ones don’t. Joining host Joanne Greene is Tiffany Manuel, PhD, Enterprise's Vice President of Knowledge, Impact, and Strategy. Prior to joining Enterprise in 2012, Dr. Manuel served as Director of Impact & Evaluation at The FrameWorks Institute, and was a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. RESOURCES The report, "'You Don't Have to Live Here' - Why Housing Messages are Backfiring and 10 Things We can Do About It": http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/download?fid=14407&nid=18689 For additional information on this topic, visit: http://www.enterprisecommunity.com http://www.frameworksinstitute.org http://edenhousing.org

Sometimes, we are frustrated by public opposition to our noble work in afforable housing and spin our wheels trying to find a way around it. Rather than discount the opposition, Enterprise Community Partners and The Frameworks Institute tackled the problem head on to find out the values behind some of the opposing views of providing affordable housing and how we can change the conversation around housing. On this episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast brought to you by Eden Housing, we'll dive into which messages about affordable housing work with the public and which ones don’t. Joining host Joanne Greene is Tiffany Manuel, PhD, Enterprise's Vice President of Knowledge, Impact, and Strategy. Prior to joining Enterprise in 2012, Dr. Manuel served as Director of Impact & Evaluation at The FrameWorks Institute, and was a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. RESOURCES The report, "'You Don't Have to Live Here' - Why Housing Messages are Backfiring and 10 Things We can Do About It": http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/download?fid=14407&nid=18689 For additional information on this topic, visit: http://www.enterprisecommunity.com http://www.frameworksinstitute.org http://edenhousing.org