Intentional Investment in the Social Fabric of Neighborhoods Can Lift Families
The Imprint
“In places where structural disinvestment has depleted networks, parents are on their own. That has consequences. In its Community Health Survey, the New York City Health Department asks whether people in a community get together to discuss political and social issues, trust a neighbor with the key to their home, or would say something to a person who didn’t clean up after their dog. Neighborhoods lower on measures of social trust and control are higher on child welfare involvement.” - FPP Co-Director, Nora McCarthy