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...Carole Singleton Cincinnati
...program was initiated last spring when Madison Singleton, a University of Michigan student, and Greg Johnson, the graduate secretary of PBH, began reminiscing about a similar project organized by PBH ten years ago. Singleton was one of the children who participated in the original Free School at Columbia Point and Johnson was his counselor. The two won PBH's support to recreate the program and formed the Academy Homes Summer Youth Program...
Their plan seemed simple: the students would move into the Academy Homes, use Singleton, now a resident of the project, to establish a rapport with the families, and begin a sort of educational-social summer school. But from the start, they encountered problems. A shortage of funds threatened the program. Eventually, Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations and the Roxbury juvenile, courts added funds to the original PBH grant--enough to support the project...
...students moved into the housing project but again faced obstacles. They encountered difficulties in recruiting because Singleton did not have the rapport with residents that the students expected to find. In part because Singleton attends college, "his family was just not considered the model family," Lester Parrette '83, student administrator of the program, explained...
Violence at the housing project also kept the volunteers on edge all summer. The first night after the students moved in, Singleton's cousin died of a heroin overdose. The second night, a security guard trying to break up a block party was stabbed outside of the apartment; he used the students' phone to call an ambulance...