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Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Through an oral tradition embedded in the stone of memory and the flow of its reinvention, their passionate tale of resistance and transformation courses forward into new generations in a new world. A woman threatens to join the land reform struggle in her Calabrian hill town, against her husband's will, during a call for revolution in 1919. A brother and sister turn to the village sorceress in Fascist Italy to bring rain to their father's drought-stricken farm. In Pittsburgh, new immigrants witness a miraculous rescue during the Great Flood of 1936. A young girl courageously dives into the Allegheny River to save her grandfather's only memento of the old country. With only broken English to guide her, a widow hops a bus in search of live chickens to cook for Easter dinner in her husband's memory. An aging woman in the title story is on a quest to cut the ankle-length hair as hard as the rocky soil of Calabria in a drought. A lonely woman who survived World War II bombings in her close-knit village, struggles to find community as a recent immigrant. A daughter visits her mother's hill town to try and fulfill a wish for her to see the Fata Morgana. These haunting images permeate Corso's linked stories of loss, hope, struggle, and freedom.

Immigrants --- Italians --- Calabria (Italy) --- Pittsburgh (Pa.)

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Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Allegheny County (Pa.) --- Pennsylvania

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Allegheny County (Pa.) --- Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Allison Park (Pa.) --- Franklin Park (Pa.) --- Pennsylvania

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"Between January 2007 and June 2010, members of the Allegheny County Maternal and Child Health Care Collaborative designed, implemented, and evaluated the Allegheny County Maternal Depression Initiative, a local systems-change effort focused on increasing identification, referrals, and engagement in treatment as needed and appropriate for women at high risk for maternal depression. The collaborative was successful in improving key organizational and clinical processes related to the achievement of its aims. This report describes how and why the initiative was created, the processes through which it was implemented and evaluated, and the results and lessons learned. It concludes with recommendations in four areas for practice and policy change designed to expand and sustain the initiative's achievements: improve identification of maternal depression, enhance access to available resources and services, increase engagement in behavioral health treatment, and improve overall systems performance."--Publisher description.

Mental illness in pregnancy --- Pregnancy --- Community mental health services --- Mental health services --- Complications --- Allegheny County Maternal Depression Initiative (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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Community development --- City and town life --- African Americans --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Intellectual life. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Pittsburg (Allegheny County, Pa.) --- Pgh. (Pa.) --- Dayaogeh (Pa.) --- City of Pittsburg (Allegheny County, Pa.) --- City of Pittsburgh (Pa.) --- Race relations. --- Black people