Jack Pransky, is the director of the North East Health Realization
Institute and author of many books on health and well being of people. His
book "Modello: Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond; An Inside-Out
Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action through Health Realization" is
been widely appreciated by the readers.
His books mostly provides an inside-out approach to health and well-
being that concentrate on people's innate health and wisdom, pull out
people's international pliability, transforms them by changing their
viewpoint and transforms communities or organizations. He is considered to
be one of the most refined authors in this area.
The book "Modello: Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond; An
Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action through Health
Realization" by Jack B. Pransky is a true story behind the myth, a story
that begins and ends in narrating as to how Dr. Roger Mills and his staff
achieved the "miracle" in Modello and Homestead Gardens Housing Projects by
means of the Health Realization approach (Reviews for Models).
The book contains extensive interviews with Dr. Mills, his staff,
other professionals and residents, giving a very convincing and touching
portrait of how two low-income, inner-city housing projects is full with
cruelty, aggression, welfare dependency, drug gangs, crack, and despair.
These were completely turned around within 2 and half years (Reviews for
Thus, the major theme of the book is the story that describes as to
how people living among the toughest conditions were reached and finally
found hope that changed their lives. According to Bonnie Benard, Co-editor,
Resiliency in Action Journal in FOREWORD:
"What you are about to read is a remarkable story... a story of hope,
a story of what can happen when people... realize their innate
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