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 inside-out approach based on the Three Principles discovered by Sydney Banks. It was the first community project of its kind and still serves as a model for all others.

Note that Modello has now been republished (2011) through CCB Publishing, British Columbia, Canada. ISBN # 078-1-926918-24-2

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Through extensive interviews with residents and 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. Learn how people who lived among the most difficult circumstances were reached and came to find hope and to change their lives.

Author Jack Pransky says: “In all my years in prevention I have never seen this level of change in people!”

In 2001, this book won the Martin Luther King Storyteller’s Award for the book best exemplifying Dr. King’s vision of “the beloved community.”

From the “Foreword” by Bonnie Benard, Co-editor, Resiliency in Action Journal:

What you are about to read is a remarkable story-a story of hope…a story of what can happen when people realize their innate resilience-the power they possess to transform and change their lives. Ultimately, the story of Modello demonstrates that [this inside-out approach] offers the prevention, education, and intervention fields the best examples for how resilience operates. The story told so eloquently here demonstrates that social change is an inside-out process. It starts with each of our hearts and minds, with our thoughts about ourselves and others.

CCB Publishing, British Columbia, Canada. ISBN # 078-1-926918-24-2 This softcover 6″ x 9″ volume contains 19+ chapters and nearly 300 pages.

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