A Lot To Lose
lot to lose: A Call to Rethink What Constitutes "Evidence" in Finding Social Interventions That Work" is
a paper written by Katya Fels Smyth (Founder of On The Rise) and Lisbeth B. Schorr.
An excerpt from the article:
"There are programs that have found ways to help vulnerable and marginalized people, families and communities make and sustain progress
in multiple realms (including health, safety, economic stability and cohesion). These programs view people
through an ecological lens that encompasses challenges, strengths, relationships, and community context, and
they work to craft a response that are “of a piece” with people’s lives. We call these What It Takes programs.”
The Full Frame Initiative is a campaign launched specifically to ensure that over the next decade, thousands of the most
marginalized people across the country have access to programs that practice the Full Frame Approach. To learn more, visit www.fullframeinitiative.org/
What It Means To Be Successful
What It Means To Be Successful:
Lessons from the Lives of Homeless Women is a research
project led by Althea Murray and a group of women from On The Rise. The resulting report is deeply instructive.
It demonstrates that a community of homeless women has
been able to create its own alternative vision of social
success that prioritizes kindness over affluence, work
over salary, and daily decency over bank balance. With
the elusive American dream beyond their immediate reach,
these women define their accomplishments in more than simply
material terms. Four basic themes were found that together
form for women an alternative definition of “success”:
- Working in meaningful ways,
- Achieving small victories,
- Holding the door open for others, and
- Surviving, living, and telling.
Two core needs that run through each of these themes are:
- The need for success to be obtainable, and
- The need to be recognized and remembered as an individual
Read the
full report, What It Means To Be Successful.
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