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This is just very, very sad state of affairs. I don't know what the solution is. I have an uncle who works as a counselor in Cook County Jail and has worked as a volunteer for various community outreach programs for over thirty years. He's fostered eight kids personally (all from really bad family situations) and has mentored dozens if not over a hundred. He's hopeless at this point. As every year has ticked by I see he's become more and more disillusioned with the idea of any form of recovery or normalization for Chicago's dispossessed communities. I actually don't know what word to use there. Dispossessed isn't the right word. Chicago has had a very generous social safety net for a long time both from public and private resources. That doesn't seem to matter. It keeps stomachs full and bodies warm but it doesn't fix the fundamental problems of broken families.
This is just very, very sad state of affairs. I don't know what the solution is. I have an uncle who works as a counselor in Cook County Jail and has worked as a volunteer for various community outreach programs for over thirty years. He's fostered eight kids personally (all from really bad family situations) and has mentored dozens if not over a hundred. He's hopeless at this point. As every year has ticked by I see he's become more and more disillusioned with the idea of any form of recovery or normalization for Chicago's dispossessed communities. I actually don't know what word to use there. Dispossessed isn't the right word. Chicago has had a very generous social safety net for a long time both from public and private resources. That doesn't seem to matter. It keeps stomachs full and bodies warm but it doesn't fix the fundamental problems of broken families.
