Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i0MEJtI20078; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:19:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:19:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <6078EC4F.0067018D.0AB94E44@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AndresMuro@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9790] Re: Civic participation training statistics X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1851 Lines: 30 Unfortunately, no that I know of, and this is one of the big pieces that we are missing. We all intuitively know that if people become effective community participants they will become less dependent on a community and more self sufficuient. However, I don't know that anyone has been able to show the exact cost. The person that I know to be closest to this is Beth Schor (sp) in her book "Within our Reach" She documents extensively how community programs help the poor preventing them from having problems that can become very costly. She illustrates this with pregnant teen programs. She argues that caring for premature babies is extremely costly and that poor care during pregnancy increases the chances of primies. with little investment on pregnant teens, you can considerably reduce this. She gives a lot of other examples. The piece that we know for sure is that education of the parent is directly proportional to the education of the child. A mother with an HS diploma will likely have children with HS diplomas or higher. A mom with elementary ed. will probably have children with elementary ed or higher. Andres In a message dated 1/21/2004 11:50:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Ann Gillespie" <ann@prolinguanashville.com> writes: >Hello, >I'm working on a civic participation training program for >immigrants and refugees sponsored by a local neighborhood >action group. The program will help immigrants and >refugees with skills like accessing municipal and community >resources to solve problems, as well as how to be active >participants in advocacy groups. > >Does anyone know of statistical data or good examples of >how such a program has saved money for taxpayers in the >long run? I appreciate any assistance! > >Ann Gillespie >ProLingua >ann@prolinguanashville.com > -- go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
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