Pursuing the Dream is a series of photographs about community people helping their neighbors. These 30 community programs help parents do a better job by teaching them skills, providing support, and involving the whole community in raising children. The things these programs do form a coherent family policy–what we ought to be doing to help children reach their potential. Pursuing the Dream uses photographs as “icons for change and hope” to promote change. The purpose of this project is to focus attention on what helps children and families succeed so people will be motivated to act. Pursuing the Dream challenges the notion that nothing works. We know what to do, we just aren’t doing it.
Stephen Shames
