CURA Reporter [Spring 2016]

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This issue contains the following articles: The Social Determinants of Native Youth Gang Involvement, by Ross VeLure Roholt, Katie Johnston-Goodstar, and Don Eubanks / Creativity Testing, Achievement, and Higher-Order Thinking in Schoolchildren, by Brad Hokanson and William Bart / Poverty Explains Some of the Achievement Gap, but Not All, by Will Craig / Disrupting Poverty with Mentoring Young Adults, by Monique Linder / Raising the Standard of Living for Workers While Raising the Standard of Care for Clients, by Kaela Dickens / Neighborhoods Now!: Plotting a Course for change, by Andrew Tran / Developing the New Barn-Raising Concept— An Englishman’s Visit to Minnesota, by Gareth Potts / Artist Neighborhood Partnership Initiative & Neighborhood Partnership Initiative 2015 Grantees / Staff and Program Updates / Hennepin-University Partnership Receives W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award, by Colin Calvert / Linking Past to Present through the Andrew Peterson Farmstead, by Maria Wardoku / Announcing RCP’s 2016–2017 Partnership with Brooklyn Park, by Maria Wardoku / The Minnesota Prison Doula Project: Supporting Incarcerated Pregnant and Parenting Women