For People & Stories/Gente y Cuentos, impact is measured by participants' development in four domains: literacy, personal development, intellectual development, and intersubjective development.

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Listen to participants at The Father Center

The students were more interested in reading as a result of People & Stories…[they] would often engage in conversation beyond the session about what was read.”

— Academic Success Director, Hopeworks ‘N Camden

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Perhaps the most concrete sign of the program’s effectiveness I have seen is that after participating in People & Stories our residents are better able to participate in other parts of our program and they have a higher performance rate than those who did not.”

— Director, Bo Robinson Assessment and Treatment Center, Trenton

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P&S/GyC program assessments developed in partnership with Harvard University

Harvard's Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment (HULA)

The critical thinking strategies that People & Stories teaches have aided in our members passing the reading and writing component of the GED exam.”

— Former Director, NJ Youth Corps of Trenton

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This program is not like their [inmates’] regular programming…it gives the residents a means of communicating.”

— GED Teacher, Bo Robinson Education and Treatment Center, Trenton

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