In this op-ed for the CT Mirror, Paul Dworkin, a member of the North Hartford Triple Aim Collaborative, explains how two Wellville Communities, Spartanburg, SC (via Hello Family) and North Hartford, CT (via the Ascend Pipeline) have implemented suites of programs that support the wellbeing of all children – and, by extension, their families and communities.
The secret ingredient, he says, is trust – tough to find among residents of neighborhoods decimated by decades of neglect. Read on to find out how the collaborators on the Ascend Pipeline project are taking on Harlem Children Zone founder Geoffrey Canada’s exhortation to build trust “block-by-block, neighborhood-by-neighborhood.”
