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Practitioners Institute

Sharing Information About HCZ

Though the number of children and adults served by HCZ is ambitious, those numbers are dwarfed by the millions of children, particularly those of color, who are being lost to the chronic poverty of America's inner cities.

The statistics are as frightening as they are sad.

• In 2006, 13 million children were poor, an increase of more than 10 percent since 2000.
• Two of every four black babies are born into poverty.
• Only 50 percent of black students and 53 percent of Latino students graduate on-time with a regular diploma.
• By their mid-thirties, six in 10 black men who had dropped out of school had been in prison.
• In 2007, the 50 states spent $44 billion on corrections.

HCZ feels our comprehensive approach to educating children and strengthening families can be successful in other communities as well as Harlem, so we have created the Practitioners Institute, which shares information about our work with others.

The goal is to help communities so they can identify their resources and needs, then organize a coordinated, interdisciplinary strategy.

For a reasonable fee, a community delegation can attend either a three-hour or three-day workshop.

The Practitioners Institute has worked with more than 80 groups across the United States, from Florida to California, and with delegations from 24 countries, from Indonesia to Romania.