Read about six women who graduated from a 16-week Jobs for Life course, peace keepers who work in the community visiting families of murder victims and knocking on the doors of known potential shooters, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our November 2022 newsletter.
No One Moved
About 25 men and women from all over Indianapolis showed up at the police roll call on Tuesday in a crime hot spot at 30th and Post Road. They weren’t picketing or calling to defund the police. IMPD East is one of six districts of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, and those officers serve in…Continue reading No One Moved
Where Are the Fathers?
Society has a way of creating its own difficulties. Like the push to defund police has led to a situation where no one wants to be on a police force, the idea that strong women don’t need a husband or father in the home has led to—surprise!—reduction in fathers. Free love of the ’60’s and…Continue reading Where Are the Fathers?
You Can Only Do What You Can Do
What is it to have a second chance? UNITE INDY’s SecondChanceIndy.com web site gives men and women access to a new future—one that is a gateway to a financially secure life, that opens doors to having successful relationships, raising successful children, and becoming self-sufficient and independent. But second chances are only for those who are…Continue reading You Can Only Do What You Can Do
Indiana Employers Needed No Risk, Big Payoff
Year after year, exorbitant interest fees and onerous, unrealistic balloon payments are draining money from the meager earnings of Indiana’s most financially vulnerable citizens. Even small financial emergencies regularly take working people and military families down the path to bankruptcy because they must turn to payday predatory lenders, whose schemes trap borrowers in a never-ending…Continue reading Indiana Employers Needed No Risk, Big Payoff
Newsletter: September 2022
Read about our meeting with FSSA’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Stop the Violence Indianapolis’ event for basketball players to discuss teen gun violence, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our September 2022 newsletter.
Expanding Psychiatric Care
Over the last five decades, allegations of abuse combined with the reality of funding shortages caused the closings of mental hospitals here and across the country. Central State Hospital, formerly the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was closed in the 90s, in favor of a “modern” approach, away from institutional methods of treatment. It…Continue reading Expanding Psychiatric Care
The Damage of ‘Defund’ Rhetoric
A man accused of fatally shooting a police officer made a song about killing a cop, then he did it. Early on a Sunday morning he shot 24 year old Elwood Officer Noah Shahnavaz (pictured) in the face. According to the shooter’s rap sheet, (which included the term SVF for ‘serious violent felon’) he had…Continue reading The Damage of ‘Defund’ Rhetoric
Newsletter: August 2022
Read about the City’s and the State’s Support UNITE INDY’s Reentry Transportation Program, how a Pendleton inmate is a regular donor to UNITE INDY, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our August 2022 newsletter.
The Era of Aggressive Entitlement
Is work out of style? My parents were middle-class people. As kids, we didn’t have to work to eat, but we DID have to work. Because my dad owned a manufacturing plant (and since you can legally hire your own children at age 14) my sister and I went to work all summer long at…Continue reading The Era of Aggressive Entitlement