The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.| The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Through research, practice, and leadership development, we seek to explore, validate, and build on transformational change practices so they become more frequently used in mainstream social and environmental problem solving.| Collective Change Lab
Authored by John Bare Dr. Pamela Cantor is on a mission to awaken the world to the ways Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose can expand human flourishing. “If people really understood trauma, they would make changes. Effects of trauma can be reversed,” Pam Cantor told attendees at the October 2024 gathering of Aspen Institute’s Opportunity […]| The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
Authored by John Bare Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. – Willie Nelson It was “hotter than nine kinds of hell” a newspaperman wrote, and it was deep in the heart of Texas, as the song says, and it was 1973 and the peaceniks and the hawks were warring, same as the rednecks […]| The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
This summer, the Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) hosted the OYF Summer Youth Policy Summit 2024 at the Austin Community College (ACC), Texas. This first-ever cross-state youth coalescing policy summit brought together young leaders from across the Texas Opportunity Youth Network (TOYN) and the California Opportunity Youth Network (COYN) – bringing to life the Aspen Forum […]| The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions