Judith B. Van Ginkel

Judith B. Van Ginkel

It’s another 95-degree day in Cincinnati when Crystal Palmer, a home visitation counselor with Every Child Succeeds, stops to see Carrie Moore, a 19-year-old mother with 6-month-old twins born several weeks premature. The day is a recipe for maternal frustration – no...
Donald Stedman

Donald Stedman

Unspeakably squalid conditions, screaming, naked people running down hallways – that was the norm at a Tennessee hospital and school for people with severe mental and physical disabilities in the late 1950s. A psychologist-in-training at the time, Donald Stedman...
Margaret Gordon

Margaret Gordon

Children living near the freeways in urban Oakland, Calif., are hospitalized for asthma at 12 times the rate of youths in the city’s more affluent – and greener – suburb of Lafayette. Years ago, Margaret Gordon didn’t know about how grave the situation was in her...