Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond: An Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action

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 peoples 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 humanitys social ills.