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The ART of Hope: Healing the Wounded City

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Approaches to poverty reduction are often framed in terms of rational/technical interventions. This chapter proposes an alternative approach to poverty reduction that understands poverty not as a social problem amenable to a technical fix but as a universal social wound that requires strategies of healing. Using the example of the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative, a multi-dimensional municipal strategy, this chapter explores the underlying principles of abundance, resilience and trust as the foundations of a healing approach to poverty. Through this approach, trust relationships are nurtured which strengthens individual and collective resilience, enabling the mobilization of abundant community resources to reduce and prevent poverty for the benefit of all.

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  1. Ambrose University, 150 Ambrose Circle SW, T3H 0L5, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Derek Cook M.Sc., RSW

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  1. Honors College and Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

  2. School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Cecilia Wong

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Cook, D. (2017). The ART of Hope: Healing the Wounded City. In: Phillips, R., Wong, C. (eds) Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0878-2_3

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