Townsand Price-Spratlen Livres

Focusing on a faith-based addiction recovery organization, the book delves into the challenges and successes faced in a high poverty neighborhood. It explores the complex dynamics of community support, personal transformation, and the impact of faith on recovery journeys, highlighting both the struggles and victories of individuals seeking to overcome addiction in a difficult environment.

Analyzes how - and how well - one company, Reconstruction, Inc of Philadelphia, has organized returning prisoners, their families, and communities for 24 years. This book looks at Reconstruction's programs, strategies, and patterns of change over time; and holistic and principled transformations in the people and families it has touched.

Nurturing Sanctuary analyzes ways in which the two most vital institutions of the Black experience - families and churches - are working with schools and health providers to respond to contemporary challenges and improve the twenty-first century life chances of African Americans and others.