Answer: Mimi Silbert and Delancey Street Rehabilitation Program are the proof.
From the book Change Anything:
Delancey Street in San Fransisco, California [is where] we find Mimi Silbert. the founder and genius behind the most successful life-changing facility on earth. The entire facility is run by Mimi and fifteen hundred residents–each with an average of eighteen felony convictions. Delancey Street admits drug addicts and criminals and transforms more than 90 percent of them into productive citizens. (p 56)
Watch Mimi speak from 30 minutes into this video. Delancey Street is an amazing story: to take thousands of the bottom 2% of society and have them transform themselves into contributing,well-adjusted, beautiful human beings! And Mimi tells the story with so much passion. There is so much we can all learn from this model.
The Mimi Silbert story: Re-cycling ex-cons, addicts and prostitutes
