Civic Ventures :: Innovations Documentary Series

Hope Meadows: Raising a Neighborhood

The older adults who have picked up and moved to this former-military-base-turned-foster-care-village became part of a neighborhood that helps take care of some of the most vulnerable young people in the society – foster children who essentially have nowhere else to turn.

Hope Meadows volunteer with child climbing tree. Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

Hope Meadows volunteer.
Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

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Hope Meadows

Generations of Hope
1530 Fairway Dive
Rantoul, IL 61866
(217) 893-4673
www.generationsofhope.org

Innovations

Photographs by Alex Harris
Essay by Rob Gurwitt
Audio Production by Elana Hadler
Introduction by Marc Freedman

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