tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55318861906962566382012-02-01T17:34:03.451-08:00Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-85319310809125558032012-02-01T17:34:00.000-08:002012-02-01T17:34:03.465-08:00

Ami Chen Emerging from the popular weekly radio show, “A New Way to Handle Absolutely Everything,” co-host Ami Chen takes flight with her very own show on essential spiritual principles that cross the boundaries of religion, self-help, psychology and all spiritual traditions. For over a decade, Ami has taught principles of innate mental health and resiliency in jail settings, community

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-49002692208909315672012-01-31T15:17:00.000-08:002012-01-31T15:17:40.035-08:00

Gloria Dickerson (front: third from right) and youth from Sunflower County.  Gloria Dickerson thinks big. Not only is she bringing Three Principles training to 90 youth in Mississippi's Sunflower County through a unique series of all-day Saturday sessions, she plans to wrap up the sessions with a field trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Why Disney World? She wants the participants

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-30875093094396818582011-11-30T09:03:00.000-08:002011-11-30T12:07:43.249-08:00

by Liz Alameda, CSC Finance Manager Liz Alameda I was employed for 25 years with the Santa Clara County Probation Department in Juvenile Hall with offenders sometimes as young as 11 years of age. My time as a supervisor was to monitor the contractors who came to deliver services to our incarcerated juveniles. One of those contractors was The Department of Alcohol and Drugs, 3 Principles

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-83465397490546382712011-11-28T10:43:00.000-08:002011-11-29T09:57:56.885-08:00

If you were to visit the housing development known as Advent Heights, you’d see that the townhouse units are plain and unadorned, that there are few trees or shrubs planted here, and that several units are vacant, their unhinged doors revealing dark and lifeless interiors. Sylvia Franklin-Maxey If you were to take a closer look, you might notice the details: flowers planted here and there;

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-71912035337030959712011-11-28T10:26:00.000-08:002011-11-28T10:26:14.669-08:00

GREENVILLE (Aug, 30, 2011) - “Soybean City” has been under siege by an infestation of bees for 20 years. Up to 10 apartments are uninhabitable and families have abandoned nearby units, fearful that a child could die if a bee sting results in anaphylactic shock. However, thanks to the generosity of Greenville business owner Reginald Reed the bee problem soon may be just a bad memory. Reed owns

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-83224662368208696932011-10-17T11:26:00.000-07:002011-11-28T10:55:34.971-08:00

Randa can move fast when she’s angry… The 47-year-old single mom was in the kitchen making an omelette when her 11-year-old daughter, Nicole, started mouthing off to her from the living room. In a flash, Randa was face-to-face with Nicole. This kind of heated family drama would usually involve Randa raising her hand, followed by tears and recriminations. Nicole would leave for school with the

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-18954147415760985452011-10-17T10:12:00.000-07:002011-10-17T11:47:01.426-07:00

A Latino woman in a white pin-striped suit stands in front of the classroom asking the group of 25 adults whether they reflected on a video presented during the previous class. “Do you remember anything about the video?” asks Gabriela Maldonado-Montano, whose job is to teach them the Three Principles. This was their homework, to muse on the taped talk given by Sydney Banks. Gabriela

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-87797606583971674752011-10-14T12:54:00.000-07:002011-10-14T12:54:37.527-07:00

While I was in Santa Cruz this fall with the task of going through the archives of articles published about the Three Principles -- Dr. Roger Mills’ legacy -- I came across an article written 17 years ago called, “Miracle on 66th Avenue” about the transformation of two crime-ridden Oakland neighborhoods: Lockwood and Coliseum Gardens. Journalist Dashka Slater’s incisive interviews and sensitive,

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-22710218059638656752011-09-06T11:27:00.000-07:002011-12-19T09:04:45.582-08:00

Lakewood Youth Summit: Youth identified barriers that were keeping them from reaching their goals; these barriers were broken this day! Interest in the Three Principles is reaching a tipping point in Charlotte, North Carolina. Five years ago, a small neighborhood organization in Charlotte decided to become a National Community Resiliency Project (NCRP) partner and underpin all its programs

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-41731801414465566672011-08-12T12:45:00.000-07:002011-10-11T09:00:21.956-07:00

(Editor's note: The Aug. 29 event following the MLK Memorial Dedication was cancelled due to Hurricane Irene. Plans are underway to schedule another event at a later date in another location. Stay tuned for more news. - added Oct. 11)) Dave Nichols, one of the key figures at the Charlotte, North Carolina site of the Center’s National Community Resiliency Project, has been invited to speak at a

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-66570540201041047372011-07-07T10:55:00.000-07:002011-08-15T16:19:19.950-07:00

Center for Sustainable Change Co-director Ami Chen Mills-Naim, is hard at work on a new handbook for educators, State of Mind in the Classroom. The book deals with how to create the optimal school climate for learning and features interviews with teachers who are integrating the Three Principles approach in their work with students. I got my first taste of the Center’s work with schools by

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-39708378954790314332011-06-05T09:54:00.000-07:002011-06-15T16:09:43.402-07:00

Awakening the Beloved Community: Report on Year 2 of the National Community Resiliency Project (March 2009-June 2010) The Center for Sustainable Change would like to acknowledge the impressive achievements of our community partners in Des Moines, Iowa. What began there in 2004-5 as a series of local 3-Principles trainings turned into a project partnership with the Center’s National Community

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-35713650322556160442011-06-02T10:53:00.000-07:002011-06-02T10:53:34.613-07:00

The Center is pleased to announce that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is funding another two years of the National Community Resiliency Project (NCRP) to the tune of $200,000. The funding allows the Center to continue its work partnering with local organizations to bring 3 Principles training to more people, agencies and communities in areas of the United States struggling with economic and social

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-70385170141206361332010-01-23T09:38:00.000-08:002010-02-26T09:41:14.157-08:00

In the spring of 2008, the Center for Sustainable Change embarked on a partnership with the 3 Principles Network in Des Moines, Iowa and the United Way of Greater Des Moines, along with the Lakewood Community Development Corporation and Lakewood Pre-School in Charlotte, N.C. to initiate the National Community Resilency Project.The overarching aim of this project is to increase and unleash the

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-15568958254654260822009-11-13T10:05:00.000-08:002010-01-23T19:30:44.989-08:00

Phyllis White is a resident of the Lakewood neighborhood, just outside of Charlotte, N.C.—one primary site for our current National Community Resiliency Project (NCRP).Lakewood historically has suffered a higher than average violent crime rate (four times that of greater Charlotte); as well as greater levels of poverty; single, female-heads of households, teen pregnancy and so on. We have learned

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-42807793217718228792009-08-25T17:47:00.002-07:002009-08-25T17:49:55.263-07:00

Director’s Report from Jackson and the Mississippi Delta, August 2, 2009In the Bible, it is written: “The first shall be last and the last shall be first.”Although we at CSC do not promote any religion, so we can reach people of all religions (or of no religion), we understand that great pearls of wisdom are found in the Bible … and in many of the world’s spiritual books.We are also finding great

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-83333383020505571292009-06-05T09:09:00.000-07:002009-06-05T09:16:04.338-07:00

Background:In Spring of 2008, the Center for Sustainable Change entered into partnership with the 3 Principles Network in Des Moines, Iowa, the Lakewood Community Development Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation--through our National Community Resiliency Project. After a year of work in both locations, our Executive Director wrote up this “informal” report

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5531886190696256638.post-87724639450705687602009-06-05T09:05:00.000-07:002009-09-03T14:23:30.689-07:00

Air-borne report re: CSC at the Delta Citizens Alliance Conference, Harlow’s Casino on the Mississippi River, April 25, 2009Stage One of our National Community Resiliency Project, Mississippi Delta RegionDear Friends,Our first trip to Mississippi has been most fortuitous. Our initial success came in just getting to the conference site in Greenville at all. It’s a three-legged flight from almost

Ami Chen Mills-Naimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487960016683495689noreply@blogger.com0