Modello is the true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills
and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead
Gardens Housing Projects, applying the Three Principles/Health
Realization approach based on a new spiritual psychology. Through
extensive interviews with residents as well as Dr. Mills, his staff and
other professionals, a very compelling and moving portrait is painted of
how two low-income, inner-city housing projects replete with violence,
crack, drug gangs, abuse, welfare dependency and hopelessness were
completely turned around within two-and-a-half years. This book shows
how people who lived in the most difficult circumstances were reached,
came to find hope and changed their lives. "In all my years in
prevention I have never seen this level of change in people!" It is a
truly inspirational story. The lives of people on whom society has given
up were completely turned around. At the same time it is a sociological
study. It shows how a new and different inside-out, spiritual paradigm,
which on the surface seems too simple and backwards to possibly work in
such overwhelming conditions, can produce incredible results and create
changes in people's lives that stand head and shoulders above the
traditional outside-in paradigm for prevention, human services, social
work, community development and education. It has vast implications for
improving humanity's social ills.
About the Author:
Jack Pransky, Ph.D. is founder/director of the Center for Inside-Out
Understanding. He authored the books, Somebody Should Have Told Us!:
Simple Truths for Living Well, Parenting from the Heart, Prevention from
the Inside-Out; Prevention: The Critical Need and co-authored Healthy
Thinking/ Feeling/Doing from the Inside-Out prevention curriculum for
middle school students. Pransky has worked in the field of prevention
since 1968 in a wide variety of capacities and now provides
consultation, training, counseling and coaching from the inside-out,
throughout the U.S. and internationally. He is also cofounder/director
of the nonprofit consulting organization, Prevention Unlimited, which
created the Spirituality of Prevention Conference. In 2001 his book,
Modello received the Martin Luther King Storyteller's Award for the
book best exemplifying King's vision of "the beloved community," and in
2004 Jack won the Vermont Prevention Pioneer's Award. Jack can be
contacted through his website at www.healthrealize.com.
