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Inspirations: Delancy Street
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1971 Delancey Street began with four residents, a thousand
dollar loan, and a dream to develop a new model to turn around
the lives of substance abusers, former felons, and others
who have hit bottom by empowering the people with the problems
to become their own solution. More than 30 years later they
remain true to their mission. They have been taking in as
residents representatives of our society's most serious social
problems and, by a process of each one helping another, with
no professionals, no government funding, and at no charge
to the clients, they have been solving these problems: generations
of poverty, illiteracy, lack of job skills, hardcore substance
abusers, homelessness, repeat felons, gang members, teen pregnancies,
perpetrators, and victims of every kind of abuse. After an
average of four years (a minimum stay of 2 years), their residents
gain an academic education, three marketable skills, accountability
and responsibility, dignity, and integrity. They have successfully
graduated over 14,000 people from America's underclass into
society as successful taxpaying citizens leading decent legitimate
and productive lives. More...
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