The Broadcast Edge

What are you destined to be, and how can we ensure your healthy success?  Criminal justice system encounters are uniquely tied to health. No one aspires to have criminal justice system (CJS) encounters. If there is such a thing as destiny unmet, a criminal identity would be it. Ensuring that we stay on track with our destinies, even if our future intentionally changes alongside shifted aspirations, requires assertive confrontation. Healthcare should be assertive and pull up a chair at the active duty and veteran involved CJS table. The individual aspirations of active duty and veteran persons, like civilians, illuminates self-determined destiny. It is not enough to offer recruiting counsel or military administration manuals to accompany one’s career. Criminal activity, risks and prevention, victim impact, recidivism and poor quality of life outcomes should be viewed as a health charge. Healthcare should partner as we accept our responsibility in ensuring the healthy success of thos...

  Social services is unnecessarily abstract for military members and veterans. The opportunity for logical, tangible and clear redesign should be supported by greater healthcare. While most of us are not experts in social services and social work, we are experts on what it feels like to need and receive resources. And, we can observe what is and is not available for the military service person to achieve an equally healthy life through social service. From the outside looking in, large portfolios of research are not organized for quality to evidence based practice, nor is the science translated optimally. These complex social support deliverables are inconsistent, and a lack of predictability provokes disarray in social service foundations. Furthermore, there is great opportunity for international coordination to the profession of social work. There is opportunity to define roles, responsibilities, tools, and methodologies. Currently, social support, social services and social work...