Opening the World: Bookfair Fundraiser, April 11-20 at B&N!

Support Opening the World by shopping at Barnes & Noble in Corte Madera, CA. In an effort to raise funds for their community service and travel program for at-risk young adults, Opening the World is working together with Barnes & Noble Booksellers by hosting a Bookfair at the Corte Madera store, April 11-20, 2014.

Opening The World (OTW) was started in 2012 by Marriage and Family Therapist, Jeannine Curley, with support of a group of professionals that work with troubled youths in Marin County. OTW empowers and exposes at-risk young adults to experience a world outside of their own through volunteer and cultural experiences both in their community and abroad. Participants have experienced significant challenges in their lives, including poverty, educational problems, substance abuse and or lack of family support. Throughout the year, as a group, they raise funds in order to finance their trip and are also required to individually contribute a specified amount of money. During the summer of 2014, Opening The World will travel with 10 young adults to New Orleans to work with Project Homecoming to help rebuild a community that continues to be affected by Hurricane Katrina. 

On February 23, 2014, OTW founder, Jeannine Curley, was among 51 international honorees of the 2014 Unsung Heroes of Compassion award and was acknowledged by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Unsung Hero awards are given only every four years; 2014 is the fourth occurrence of this event. More information about the New Unsung Heroes can be found at http://newunsungheroes.org.

On April 11-20, 2014, Barnes & Noble will donate a percentage of every sale made with a special Bookfair voucher to Opening the World! Vouchers will be available online at Opening the World’s website www.Openingtheworldthroughtravel.org.   Supporters can also use the Bookfair Voucher # 11316692 in any Barnes & Noble across the country to benefit Opening the World.

Opening the World will host a special Author Discussion at Barnes & Noble Corte Madera on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 2pm.  The discussion will feature local authors Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. (The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance) and Nell Bernstein (All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated and the upcoming Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison). This event is free and open to the public.  All are welcome to attend.

Dr. Hinshaw is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Department Chair from 2004-2011, and Vice Chair for Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.  His work focuses on developmental psychopathology, clinical interventions, and mental illness stigma, with specialization in ADHD.  He has directed summer research programs and conducted longitudinal studies for boys and (more recently) for girls with ADHD and externalizing disorders. He was Principal Investigator of the Berkeley site for the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (MTA).  Hinshaw has authored over 265 publications plus 10 books, including The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change (Oxford, 2007), The Triple Bind: Saving our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures(Random House, 2009), and (with R. Scheffler) The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medications, Money, and Today’s Push for Performance (Oxford, 2014). He received California’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution in Psychology Award and Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award. 

Nell Bernstein's second book, Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, will be published by The New Press on June 3, 2014. Her writings have appeared in numerous national publications, including Glamour, Health, Legal Affairs, Marie Claire, Mother Jones, Newsday, O:  The Oprah Magazine, Salon.com, Self, Redbook and the Washington Post.  Her first book, All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated, was published in 2005. It won the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and delinquency, was selected as a pick of the week by Newsweek Magazine, a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, and a top ten book of the year by the Online Review of Books. Bernstein--who was named a "Champion of Change" by the White House-- has addressed policy makers, grantmakers, criminal justice professionals and the public across the country on how to resolve the impact of incarceration on families, and made numerous radio and television appearances. She has spent nearly a decade as editor of YO! (Youth Outlook), a monthly magazine by and about young people. In January of 2000, Bernstein was awarded a media fellowship from the Center on Crime, Communities and Culture of the Open Society Institute in New York. In 2002, Bernstein was awarded a Journalism Fellowship in Child and Family Policy from the University of Maryland School of Journalism. She coordinates the San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, which advocates for a Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents.

Please help support Opening the World by shopping at Barnes & Noble Corte Madera, 313 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, CA 94925 on April 11-20, 2014, with a Bookfair voucher (ID#11316692). For more information, contact Laurel Kidd, Community Relations Manager for Barnes & Noble Corte Madera at crm2274@bn.com. Follow Barnes & Noble Corte Madera’s news and events on Twitter @CorteMaderaBN.