ERIC Number: ED385646
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 162
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Community-Based Family Support in Public Housing.
Lassen, Mary M.
This book provides a framework for developing community-based family support initiatives in public housing. After describing the historical and present contexts of this approach, the book details principles and key elements. Profiles are presented for eight organizations, all working in public housing, but with different strategies and emphases: (1) Project Uplift, Greensboro (North Carolina); (2) Family Learning Centers, Austin (Texas); (3) The Work Force Youth Unemployment Prevention Program, Cambridge (Massachusetts); (4) Project Match, Chicago (Illinois); (5) Commonwealth Tenants Association, Boston (Massachusetts); (6) The Welcome Project, Somerville (Massachusetts); (7) Rainier Vista Family Center, Seattle (Washington); and (8) Community Building in Partnership, Inc., Baltimore (Maryland). A common factor among these programs is that they are community-based and driven and that they strengthen communities. They emphasize prevention and early intervention, are of high quality, and both are coherent and easy to access. Some model program strategies are explored. Each program's effort is summarized in a descriptive chart. (SLD)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Family Programs, Models, Prevention, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Public Housing, Social Problems, Urban Areas, Urban Problems
Harvard Family Research Project, 38 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 ($15 plus shipping and handling).
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI.; Radcliffe Coll., Cambridge, MA. Mary Ingraham Bunting Inst.; John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Authoring Institution: Harvard Family Research Project, Cambridge, MA.
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