Hello Friend, How often do you feel like you’re expressing what you’re really feeling?  Much of our world is not perfectly designed to fit the normal human emotions of grief, rage, and confusion. We know that we can’t always yell in a library or bawl in a Starbucks (although sometimes it happens!) We must often keep relatively composed and hide some of the depth of our emotions everywhere we...

Hi Friend, Happy end of June! As we prepare to transition into July (which seemed to us at the 10.27 Healing Partnership to come so quickly!) we have been reflecting on the learning and community-building we’ve been doing this month. At the 10.27 Healing Partnership, we strive to make our programming, events, and space as accessible as possible. We recognize that the community we...

Hi Friend,   We hope you are well! So far this month we’ve already had some beautiful experiences outside, from walking in the parks with our Walking the Healing Path participants, to holding warm conversations with community members at Canopy Conversations. We hope you’ll brave the heat and mugginess and join us! These experiences were needed as a balance, as  we’ve also...

Noah Schoen is a community organizer, oral historian and co-founder of “Memories of October 27th,” an oral history project that has interviewed over 100 Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers about their life histories and reflections on the October 27th, 2018 synagogue shooting. He is also the Community Outreach Associate for the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, where he works to build...

Shawn Ginwright Ph.D. From time to time, researchers, policy makers, philanthropy and practitioners all join together in a coordinated response to address the most pressing issues facing America’s youth. I’ve been involved with this process for long enough to have participated in each of these roles. I recall during the early 1990s experts promoted the term “resiliency,” which is the capacity...

A Pittsburgh teenager who wished to remain anonymous organized an event and helped plant 11 trees in Schenley Park on April 11. Two months prior, another unnamed teen did the same in North Park. The trees were planted in memory of the victims of the Oct. 27, 2018, massacre at the Tree of Life building. Neither teen was directly connected to the victims’ families nor to any of the three...

“I want to share what we have learned at the 10.27 Healing Partnership in order to help everyone recognize and navigate the COVID-19 Anniversary Effect,” says Maggie Feinstein the director of 10.27 Healing Partnership. Read more.

Jon Delano of KDKA spoke to Maggie Feinstein, the director of the 10.27 Healing Partnership about  a recent poster initiative meant to bring hope during the coronavirus pandemic. This initiative is an effort to promote local businesses and encourage community members to imagine an area free from hate.  Listen to the interview.

In this time as mental health professionals are adjusting to the increased demand on their services they also continue to “pivot” to meet the needs of their clients in a way that is responsive and also covid-safe. The need for mental health help, Feinstein said, is now greater than the current system was built to handle. Still, “one of the inspiring things is, we’re seeing crop up some very...