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Philanthropic Projects:

Currently, I’m working on two projects, one in microbusiness (to improve poverty alleviation for the homeless), the other in psychology (to improve diagnostic criteria for trauma survivors).

Project #1: Microbusiness for the Homeless

Image courtesy Joe M500.

It’s distressing that after homeless individuals work on recovery from alcoholism and other issues contributing to chronic homelessness, they struggle to find employment after being on the streets and/or addicted for any years.

So I’m working with CityTeam homeless shelters to develop a way where homeless individuals who’ve graduated from Alcholics Anonymous can go through a 90 day trial employment experiment by working in a microbusiness run by their peers, as a pre-qualifier to be directly hired by a good company, to help them break out of the poverty/addiction cycle more quickly.

Project #2: Integrated Model of The Psychology of Trauma

Image courtesy Patrick J. Lynch.

As a closet psychologist, I’ve amassed a ton of research over several years in various topics and am building a more specific, practical diagnostic model to help people recovering from various types of trauma.

So I’m working to map out an overlay of the various pyschological/emotional/stress/brain development systems, into an integrated, cohesive model that makes more sense than the disjointed information out there.

A comparable example would be how anatomy has transparencies of the circulatory system, skeletal system, the organs, etc. all overlaid onto one image so you see how the whole body works together.

I’m building a model that shows the various psychological systems and how they develop and work together in a functional person, and then pinpoint/detail the various causes and effects of known traumas, and how they disrupt healthy development/processes to form the causes of common mental/emotional disturbances.

Along with that, building out specific diagnostic questionnaires that identify and isolate which system (emotional, social, mental, intellectual, etc.) has been disrupted, so that when an individual goes through trauma recovery later, the patient and clinician can more accurately pinpoint how to undo the damage and restore the person’s health more quickly.