JJ Cutuli
I'm a scientist studying resilience w/ children & families who experience adversity, like homelessness & loss.
RG: www.researchgate.net/profile/J-J-Cutuli/publications
Substack: joewillard.substack.com
- Recent increases in the number of students experiencing homelessness identified and served in Camden City Schools. Check out our recent blogpost summary and click through to the full report! open.substack.com/pub/joewilla... @nemours.bsky.social
- Philly Folks: Do you serve young children experiencing homelessness? Join us for the Children's Work Group Early Childhood Conference. Feb. 20 at 9:30 am and every month after! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @jwillard18.bsky.social
- Reposted by JJ CutuliFrom a friend who works at an MPS school with hundreds of families in hiding: "The thing REALLY needed is money for rent/utilities/cell phone bills. It looks like there is a lot of money raised but across 5 schools it’s not enough with February rent coming due." givebutter.com/rent4mplsfam...
- Democracy depends on people organizing to make sure their voices are heard and respected. I’m glad to see this happening at Villanova. How can we support similar organizing everywhere about any important issue? villanovan.com/32854/news/b...
- Great investigative journalism uncovering fraud in Philly. A strong and free press pays off. Go @inquirer.com ! www.inquirer.com/news/temple-...
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- Keep watching what happens, friends. If things actually go in the right direction, don't forget what you saw in Minneapolis. It's an instruction manual. A guide book on how to organize in the face of odds that only seem overwhelming. Remember what the people did there and get ready to do the same.
- Release Alex Pretti’s Video. He was clearly recording video with his phone. Someone still has his phone. #ReleaseTheVideo
- Sequence of events: 1. They beat him up. 2. They disarmed him. 3. Then they shot him. 4. Then they shot him some more.
- Tomorrow's front page...
- Thousands rally against immigration enforcement in subzero Minnesota temperatures apnews.com/article/minn...
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- Just an observation and question: Lots of folks in the communities I work with say "ISIS" when they're talking about ICE. It's not intentional. It's a slip, but they consistently make this slip. Why do you think this specific slip keep happening?
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- Two things: 1. Your voice still matters. Keep using it! 2. Whether the administration knows what it's doing or not, it sure seems like it doesn't know what it's doing "Rep. Rosa DeLauro... attributed the reversal to ... Kennedy ... having "bowed to public pressure." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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- Wiping out providers for mental health care and addiction treatment is the wrong approach. Also, remember when they erroneously tried to say that HUD shouldn't address homelessness by providing shelter because mental healthcare and addiction treatment were what's needed? www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
- Gift article: Everyone who enters a hospital for care needs to be medically screened & stabilized. Nobody should be dumped on the curb, and there are laws. We need better systems so hospitals are not overwhelmed to the point that staff treat people like literal trash. share.inquirer.com/bGXomI
- No public money for sports stadiums! Kudos to the people of Jackson County, MO, and shame on the state of Kansas. Invest in your people, and don’t send public money into the pockets of billionaires’ sport franchises. apnews.com/article/kans...
- TT Job Posting: Sharing for a colleague Morningside University (Iowa, USA) is hiring an asst. prof. TT position in counseling psychology to start 8/26. Seeking counseling/clinical/social work expertise and ability to teach counseling-related courses www.morningside.edu/about/employ...
- I'm always up for a good abandoned-exploring story, especially when it covers part of the history of how cities have responded to poverty (good and bad). Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/patwilla...
- Gift article: This is a VERY bad idea. HUD is trying to gut Permanent Supportive Housing, a program with a straight forward premise: To qualify the person/parent must have a disability preventing them from being able to pay rent. Instead of homelessness, they get housed: share.inquirer.com/2Qk9ri
- Without a doubt, this is a necessary function of the federal Department of Education. Student #homelessness shouldn't get in the way of education. @schoolhouseconn.bsky.social summerlee.house.gov/newsroom/pre...
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- Research post-doc opportunities; Please like and share with your networks: Two positions at Nemours in Delaware, one in Florida. One DE will be focused on obesity prevention. The others can generally pair with any of our investigators: www.nemours.org/pediatric-re...
- I don't want to be the kind of person that celebrates when someone has died, so I'll just say that I regret that Watson did not discover that he was horribly wrong in his racist beliefs: apnews.com/article/jame...
- We had a great time presenting at #NAEHCY25 and engaging with public education staff across the country dedicated to supporting students experiencing homelessness. Check out some of my awesome copresenters!
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- Does your professional conference have a high school mariachi band? Maybe it should! #NAEHCY25
- Check out this perspective piece (not by me) on the intersection of education, housing, and other national policy coming together right now. Do you agree? What can be done? dianenilan.substack.com/p/homelessne...
- We do this to ourselves for absolutely no good reason, year after year. Right and left political people think we should stop it. Why don’t we? Let’s make this the last time we change the clocks. Permanent standard time! Call your representatives! www.inquirer.com/news/standar...
- Here's an email I just received...
- DYK: The most likely age for someone to experience homelessness is between birth and 5 years old? Resilience can come from social service systems that understand how early development works. How many young children experience homelessness where you live? What's being done to recognize and respond?
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- DYK: Every U.S. public school district should have a person in charge of making sure kids experiencing homelessness can enroll and fully participate in school. There is even a professional org and a conference (next week!) for these folks. See you there: naehcy.org/annual-confe... #Education
- Reagan's tariff statement “High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars... Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.’' @whitehouse-47.bsky.social apnews.com/article/trum...
- 'Tipton said everyone she knows who has interacted with Northern thinks she’s a serious scholar, but wondered, “Is anybody going to listen to the plan that Amber puts together?”' www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
- On this date in history: Oct 20 1973 Nixon ordered the Attny General to fire the special prosecutor on probe of the Watergate Scandal. The Attny General and a deputy refused, with both resigning immediately. This contributed to public outrage and Nixon's impeachment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturda...
- Friendly reminder that democracy works best when we all participate.
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- Pennsylvania folks: Like & Share Consider signing this petition to the PA congressional delegation to reinstate the Education for Homeless Children and Youth program to ensure kids exp'cing homelessness can access school @fetterman.senate.gov @repdean.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Homelessness shouldn’t get in the way of a child’s education. The Trump administration reportedly just fired the staff running the Educating Homeless Children and Youth program and others. School will become harder to reach: schoolhouseconnection.org/article/trum...
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- Unaccompanied children need the support of agencies who have their best interest at heart and their trust. This is not that: #Camden www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
- Check out this essay on how to prepare families to weather homelessness if/when the social safety net frays and breaks. It distills lessons from a longer book informed by people who lived it (which you should also check out). open.substack.com/pub/dianenil...
