It’s tough to be a kid in America.  School shootings, child poverty, abuse, hunger, homelessness, mental illness, suicide – it’s time to change the national narrative about how we think about and defend children’s rights.   “What can we do?”  Find out how to make children a national priority at our June 22-24, 2022 conference on Children’s Human Rights in the USA.  It is a virtual zoom conference with over 50 speakers.  You will find details and registration at  

https://tinyurl.com/chrc2022   Continuing Education Credits are available.  

In order to help you learn more about the importance of children’s human rights, I’ve created a Children’s Human Rights Resource, Networking, and Learning Library for you at https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/GLKDXX 

Remember the millions that marched for their lives and pleaded for gun safety.  Here is a film I made at the Boston 2018 march where people were pleading for sensible gun control –  

Check out my new Medium article on how to prevent another school shooting – https://yvissing.medium.com/what-can-we-do-to-prevent-another-school-shooting-68a9538232d9

Join me in the fight to protect our nation’s greatest treasure – our children. 

An international team of scholars will be joining UCONN’s democracy program to fight for increased use of human rights education as a buffer to extremism. Want to learn more about it? Go to our Facebook link at https://www.facebook.com/SSU.crca/

No one wants to get sick or die, and it is reasonable and understandable that there’s lots of attention on the physical consequences of the virus. The psychological and social consequences of the pandemic are huge and can have long-range consequences. Depression, anxiety, increase of unreported domestic violence and child abuse, social isolation, alienation and anger are just a few of the consequences. Read more about how it doesn’t take a crystal ball to figure out what is going to happen if we aren’t attentive to each other’s mental health needs….. https://medium.com/@yvissing/looking-into-the-crystal-ball-f54e3cd7cea6

There’s lots of talk about populations who are at-risk of getting the coronavirus. One group that few of the officials seem to be talking about is children who are homeless. Where do they go to stay safe if they have no home and how can they study when the schools are closed and they don’t have access to the internet or equipment to do their studies? Read more about what’s happening – or NOT happening for them at https://medium.com/@dianehearus/do-they-count-homeless-children-and-covid-19-e56e96e5f56b

Are you aware that around the country if a child owes any money for school lunch that they may be denied getting anything to eat – and be turned over to collection agencies or be denied access to prom or graduation? Such is life today in America. Learn more in my Public Seminar article. https://publicseminar.org/2019/11/unpaid-school-lunch-fees/

Who is leading the fight for climate change? Who has organized protests for government leaders to address gun control to keep them safe? Who is taking to the streets to fight for racial and gender equity? It’s young people. Take a look at my article inPublic Seminar. /

https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-childrens-rights-movement-is-here/

Gun violence is killing our children. Thousands of people gathered across the nation to plead for gun control. Here is my video from the Boston march, as shown in the Public Seminar link http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/04/seeing-is-believing/

Our horses are part of our family, and we learn so much from them each day.  Here is my short essay about how I wish people were more like horses.

 If Only People Were Like Horses