Why a Trash-Strewn Lot Became a Soccer Field.
Five years ago, a coalition of community groups, government agencies and nonprofit organizations was struggling to reduce violent behavior and delinquency among under- privileged youths in a low-income suburban neighborhood about 15 miles north of Tacoma, Washington.
Michael
M
Romano
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