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...somebody from an ivory tower setting picking people out of the blue," Ramsey said. Project Life is "oriented around local leaders and a sophisticated self-help model. It relies on acceptance of local leaders," he added. "It's a low-tech, not a high-tech intervention...
Emphasizing Self-Help...
...projects emphasize self-help, according to Chaudhuri. He says ODN's philosophy is to minimize the developers' role and encourage communities to carry out projects autonomously. The ODN chapter merely provides the money. "Hopefully they'll be able to reinvest the money and the project will become self-generating," says Lucy Perkins, a member of ODN's full-time staff...
...factory worker in Windsor, Ont. "I just couldn't cope with that. 'It' was always on my mind." His fear forced him to curtail family and social activities. "I went out only when I had to," he confesses. Not anymore. Two years ago, LaPorte read about a self-help group in Wilmette, Ill., called the Simon Foundation. Desperate, he and his wife took a six-hour train trip to attend a meeting. "I was elated," says LaPorte, who at last can enjoy evenings out with friends who know his secret. "Back then I thought I was the only...
True, treatment programs are expanding. Narcotics Anonymous, a self-help group modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, had only four members in Dade County, which encompasses Miami, in 1979; today up to 80 people meet nightly in each of 44 groups throughout the county. Private hospital programs have grown so fast in the 1980s that some experts guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics...