Good evening.
It is such a blessing to work at the Harlem Children's Zone, an African-American-led organization that has pioneered the field of comprehensive place-based services,from cradle to career.
And that word,"comprehensive,"is so key to what we do.
You know,most interventions focus on one piece of a complicated,giant puzzle.
But that's not enough to solve the puzzle.
You don't solve education without understanding the home context or the home environment of our young scholar.
Or the broader context of health,nutrition or criminal justice.
The unit of change for us is not the individual child,it's the entire neighborhood.
You have to do multiple things at the same time.
And we have 20 years of data to prove that this works.
