REPLICATING THE HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE MODEL IN CHICAGO
What would it take?
That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking a decade ago. What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, but in big numbers? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone (“HCZ”), a 97-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America.
President Barack Obama has called for the creation of “Promise Neighborhoods” nationwide, based on the HCZ model. Learn more about the HCZ, and also hear from an interdisciplinary group of Chicago experts about “what it would take” to replicate the program in Chicago.
sponsored by: The School of Law Street Law Program, the Center for the Human Rights of Children, the Civitas Child Law Center, the School of Education, the Psychology Department, the Masters of Public Health Program, the School of Social Work, and the Center for Urban Research and Learning
Loyola School of Law 25 E. Pearson 10th floor Chicago, IL
February 25, 2010 3:30-5:00 pm
Registration begins at 3pm.
Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is open and free to the public.
Please RSVP to agikas@luc.edu
as space is limited.
