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Jackson, Michelle R. – 1994
The Prevention Training Institute has been developed to pilot a new strategy to assist inner-city service providers to further recognize and act on their own empowerment. Service providers must have the necessary capacities to incorporate new directions. These include knowledge of the current research, access to resources, and an understanding of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Drug Education, Inner City, Intervention
McLanahan, Sara; Garfinkel, Irv – 1988
Although the vast majority of single mothers do not fit the description of an underclass, there is a small group of predominantly black single mothers concentrated in northern urban ghettos that is persistently weakly attached to the labor force, socially isolated, and reproducing itself. Although welfare programs are necessary for those who are…
Descriptors: Blacks, Day Care, Differences, Economically Disadvantaged
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Perales, Cesar A. – Journal of State Government, 1988
Poverty, violence, illegal drugs, and despair dominate the lives of many inner-city children, most of whom are Black and Hispanic. To reverse the social and economic decline of poor neighborhoods in major metropolitan areas, the State of New York has embraced an agenda, outlined here, for rebuilding high-need inner-city communities. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Youth, Blacks, Child Welfare