"This is why some landmark work is being done to look at the social service mission through a "community-based" lens, as well as the traditional "issue-based" lens. Anyone following the work of Geoffery Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone knows about the power in applying a comprehensive set of services to a single, targeted community, and then closely tracking results.
"Here in Chicago, a number of groups have been leading an effort to apply a new "community impact" focus on old problems....
"How the "neighborhood-by-neighborhood" idea actually gets implemented is through networks. The objective is to create a social services infrastructure within a community to maximize the impact for the people who need it most....
"Innovation and know-how has made Chicago a world class city and this same sense of ingenuity is being put to work strengthening our communities, one neighborhood at a time...."
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