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Make a Difference: The Founder of the I Have a Future Program Shares His Vision for Young America

Make a Difference: The Founder of the I Have a Future Program Shares His Vision for Young America


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Dr. Henry Foster addresses the issues of the health, education, and spiritual well-being of America's youth. Dr. Foster's approach to youth issues is long on practical solutions and short on rhetoric and has, as the title declares, made a significant difference in the lives of thousands of Americans, many of whom have never met this man. Raised in a small town in rural Arkansas, Dr. Foster overcame racism and many other obstacles to become the only African-American student in his medical school class. His optimism, self-confidence, and practical thinking enabled him to move easily through the white-dominated worlds of medicine and politics, and to quickly become one of the national leaders in the fight to provide medical care for those who could not afford it. Long a champion of women and children's health issues, he innovated a "perinatal care" plan that has been expanded on a national scale, bringing affordable prenatal and postnatal care to thousands of poor women across the United States. Touching on his lifelong work with at-risk teens, Dr. Foster presents a prescriptive program of "preventive medicine" to counter teen alcohol and drug abuse, poverty, violent crime, low self-esteem and other problems that plague America's children today. His I Have a Future program targets at-risk children, providing them with educational essentials like tutoring and after-school programs as well as spiritual essentials like caring mentors and increased self-confidence. The I Have a Future program has been incredibly successful at keeping teens out of trouble and putting them on the college track - so much so that it has received praise from both President Bush, who named it one of his ThousandPoints of Light, and President Clinton, who has appointed Dr. Foster his national adviser on youth issues.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780684826851
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall & IBD
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 431 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0684826852
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jun 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Founder of the I Have a Future Program Shares His Vision for Young America
  • Width: 165 mm


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