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Community Policy Blog
A place where successful front line social service workers and community developers educate and inspire state and national policy makers.
Is it possible to redeem broken neighborhoods and to fix broken schools? Is it possible to systematically get homeless people into stable jobs and housing? Is it possible to reliably free people from drug addiction? Is it possible to provide preventive healthcare in the poorest, most rural areas?
Yes, it IS possible—and successful leaders are working those wonders everyday all over the country.
American society is broken. Tens of millions have been left behind. And too often, our governments and public social services are ineffective or even do more harm than they do good.
America is full of passionate, dedicated and innovative local leaders and workers who are solving our biggest, toughest problems. But their work is rarely reported and their voices rarely factor in to policy debates at national and state levels. These folks are concerned with getting the job done, not getting noticed.
The Heartland Innovators Community Policy Blog is an aggregator of the voices of those successful workers—a place where, with a very small time commitment, they can teach state and national policy makers about the problems they’re facing and the problems they’re solving.
Please see our sample post, written by Rev. Christian King of PINK HOUSE Kids in Charleston, SC. Her post is the perfect example of the kind of writing the Community Policy Blog is looking for: it challenges conventional wisdom of the “inside the Beltway” policy establishment and it is written from a position of deep practical experience and tangible success in the field she is writing about. Check out the other posts here, too.
For information, email info@heartlandinnovators.org.
The Community Policy blog is for insightful observers and analysts who are: executive directors, administrators, workers, students, teachers, patients, health care workers or anyone engaged in trying to serve and improve their community.
If you match the following criteria, then you are invited to be a part of the Community Policy Blog:
- You lead a program or organization that you created to serve your community;
- You have been a leader inside of an already existing program or organization that serves;
- You are a highly-engaged worker in a program or organization that serves; or
- You are a client/user of a program or organization that serves.
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- You have at some point in your recent career achieved exceptional success at meeting needs in your community (i.e. you’re not an arm chair commentator)
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- You have insightful things to say about success and failure in the field you’ll be writing about—including the ability to explain the factors behind the successes and failures in that field.