The elusive goal of healthy and just communities: optimism in the face of four decades of reality.
The author uses his own experiences over the past 44 years in the field of human services to discuss the health of our communities. He discusses changes he has seen in the behavioral health workforce, notes the areas in which culture must change, and presents prescriptions for the future that will be necessary to reach a truly just and healthy culture.the web has contributed greatly to this tendency, for now everyone can get in contact with everyone else.

Like-minded individuals are just a click away: for instance, the Defend Europe mission involved activists form many European countries, a Canadian journalist, a USA journalist, an American crowd-funding platform, a ship registered in Mongolia (probably based in Djibouti), and so on.

Nation states and even the UE have abdicated many roles which have always been their prerogative; obviously, someone else has stepped in to fill the vacuum.

This vacuum includes EU and Italian immigration policy, as well as many other sectors.

ISIS took advantage of the situation in Syria and Iraq, as Al-Qaeda did before in Afghanistan.

NGO is the new actor of geopolitics on the seas

Humanitarian NGOs took advantage of the situation the Mediterranean,