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Common Purpose

Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

By: Lisbeth Schorr

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Common Purpose

Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

By: Lisbeth Schorr

In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were jettisoned, and less than half of them ultimately survived. As a result, these groundbreaking programs never made a dent on the national or statewide level. Lisbeth Schorr has spent the past seven years researching and identifying large-scale programs across the country that are promising to reduce, on a community- or citywide level, child abuse, school failure, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependence. From reformed social service agencies in Missouri, Michigan, and Los Angeles to "idiosyncratic" public schools in New York City, she shows how private and public bureaucracies are successfully nurturing programs that are flexible and responsive to the community, that have set clear, long-term goals, and that permit staff to exercise individual judgment in helping the disadvantaged. She shows how what works in small-scale pilot social programs can be adapted on a large scale to transform whole inner-city neighborhoods and reshape America. On the heels of the federal government's dismantling of welfare guarantees, Common Purpose offers a welcome antidote to our current sense of national despair, and concrete proof that America's social institutions can be made to work to assure that all the nation's children develop the tools to share in the American dream.

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Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America

By: Lisbeth Schorr

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Within Our Reach

By: Lisbeth Schorr

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Within Our Reach

By: Lisbeth Schorr

In this solidly researched book, the authors demonstrate that the knowledge and techniques exist to decrease the incidence of welfare dependency, poor single-parent families and alienated, uneducated youth. In addition to providing a detailed account of the problem, they describe twenty-four programs that have proved successful in changing the lives of seriously disadvantaged children.

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0307789802

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Within Our Reach

Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage

By: Lisbeth Schorr

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Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage

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0385242441

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Effective Services for Young Children

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,National Forum on the Future of Children and Families,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

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Effective Services for Young Children

Report of a Workshop

By: National Research Council,National Forum on the Future of Children and Families,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

This nation has an enormous stake in reversing the alarming deterioration of the circumstances in which poor and otherwise disadvantaged children grow up. Many past efforts to reverse unfavorable trends in damaging outcomes (school failure, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and violent crime) have been relatively ineffective. Effective Services for Young Children describes the available options and steps that could be taken to improve the situation through more effective services to children and families. Many of the nation's leaders in current efforts to improve services, and many who are at the forefront of attempts to understand these efforts in current contexts contributed to the workshop and are represented in the volume. Policymakers, administrators, and practitioners will benefit from their perspectives on the possibilities for major improvements in education, social services, health care, and family support services.

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National Academies Press

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0309045797

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