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Inventing and Reinventing Argus: What Makes One Community Organization Work

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  • ELIZABETH LYTTLETON STURZ
  • MARY TAYLOR

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Since 1968, Argus Community, Inc., a South Bronx community-based organization, has had a 70 percent success rate in reclaiming the lives of some of the most at-risk youth in New York City, including juvenile delinquents and drug abusers. In 1987 Argus was selected by the Greater New York Fund as one of six best-managed social welfare agencies in New York. Argus begins by filling in emotional and parental gaps, through an extended family environment that restores trust and develops self-esteem. It moves young people through educational and vocational training to job programs and colleges, among other avenues of future growth. Organizations like Argus can be replicated. The effort must be carried out at the community level, but underwritten by the public sector working with additional private sector resources.

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  • Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz & Mary Taylor, 1987. "Inventing and Reinventing Argus: What Makes One Community Organization Work," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 494(1), pages 19-26, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:494:y:1987:i:1:p:19-26
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716287494001002
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