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...Pastore, claims that crime actually dropped 20% over the past two years, perhaps because of the improved relationship between city workers and the community. Meanwhile, referrals to drug-treatment centers increased. These results have enabled policymakers elsewhere to break the logjam. Says New York City's health commissioner Margaret Hamburg: "It all came together in the New Haven experiment...
...early adolescence. Brain damage to the fetus through malnutrition or drug abuse can diminish intellectual ability. And failure to form a secure attachment to an adult in the first two years of life can hamper a child's learning as well as emotional growth. To forestall such damage, Hamburg asserts, women must have access to prenatal care, drug-treatment programs and nutrition counseling. It also helps to assign parental mentors to new mothers (and fathers), and to consolidate social and health services into "one-stop shopping" at local hospitals and clinics...
Youngsters ages 10 to 15 are also vulnerable. "The original idea of junior high school was to ease the transition from childhood to adulthood," notes Hamburg. "Unfortunately, junior high has become a replica of high school. There are no distinctive social relationships or curriculum. It's actually wound up forcing children to make the transition to adulthood even earlier." Hamburg favors abolishing junior highs, or at the least radically reforming them, by creating smaller, more intimate schools within larger institutions and setting up a curriculum in the sciences and health that builds on students' natural preoccupation with their changing bodies...
...major stumbling block to reform, Hamburg notes, is not a lack of money: simply reallocating current resources could yield dramatic gains. The higher hurdle is social selfishness. "People resist giving up what they have," he explains. One group that may be called on to sacrifice is the elderly, on whom vast sums are spent to sustain the last few weeks of life. Says Hamburg, who is 66: "People my age need to understand that our well-being depends on the workers of the next generation. Moreover, as a society, we've got to stop concentrating on the short-time horizons...
SOCIETY Carnegie's Hamburg looks at the needs of a lost generation...