Promise Neighborhoods

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Neighborhood Resident

If you would like to transform your neighborhood, this website can help.
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Neighborhood Organization

We provide help to organizations that are trying to bring about change in neighborhoods.
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Policymaker

We provide a summary of what is needed to help high-poverty neighborhoods ensure that every young person develops successfully.
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Scientist

We invite researchers who are interested in doing research to support change in high-poverty neighborhoods.
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Our job across America is to create communities of choice, not of destiny, and create conditions for neighborhoods where the odds are not stacked against the people who live there.

Barack Obama
on the Promise
Neighborhoods Initiative

Kernel Factsheet — Relational Kernel

Self Monitoring

Domains

  • Education
  • Workplace
  • Community
  • Family

Developmental Phases

  • Childhood
  • Early Adolescence
  • Adolescence
  • Emerging Adulthood

Cost

Moderate

Performance and Impact

Reduces alcohol, tobacco use, illness symptoms from diabetes; increases school achievement; reduces ADHD, Tourettes and other DSM-IV disorder symptoms; improvement in brain injured persons.