When I launched Child Advocacy 360 Foundation and its news service in 2007, one of our first Who’s Doing What That Works stories was about Hope Meadows, the multi-generational community in Rantoul, Illinois created by Brenda Krause Eheart, Martha Bauman Power, Carolyn Casteel and a small group of like-minded friends.
Generations of Hope, the nonprofit that administers Hope Meadows, recently expanded its intergenerational approach to include helping single mothers leaving prison reunite with their children in a caring multi-generational support environment. It is a brave experiment with high promise.
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