By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 64, successful public relations and marketing executive Vicki Thomas knew that she was missing something from her life. It wasn’t until she saw a CNN news story in 2010 on injured Iraq veterans Dale Beatty and John Gallina that she realized what it was: a higher...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
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...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
What difference would it make if pregnant women spent nearly two hours for routine visits with their obstetrician, midwife or nurse instead of 15 minutes? And what if they met with and learned from other pregnant women at the same time? After 27 years as a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Gordon Johnson remembers well the day in his teenage years when his father took in two nieces and two nephews whose father couldn’t raise them. The upheaval and evident lack of concern by state case workers sparked a lifelong commitment to care for abused and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When disaster strikes and people are buried by rubble and possibly unconscious, one trained dog can often find the injured more quickly than 20 human searchers. And yet, in 1995, when Wilma Melville and her Labrador, Buddy, were called to help after the Oklahoma City...
