Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand: How to Create a Culture That Cares for Kids

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Children's lives today are complex, stressful, and dangerous. Kids are overscheduled, come home to empty houses and neighborhoods where they don't know a soul, and in school, face violence-all too often from their peers. In Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand, James Vollbracht provides a blueprint for transforming our unstable and disconnected culture into a healthier, supportive one. Vollbracht bases his approach on six overlapping circles of community-our personal circle, families, neighborhoods, larger communities, business worlds, and elders-and outlines simple actions within each circle that will help rescue our kids. Through a rich blend of heartwarming anecdotes and creative, practical strategies, Stopping at Every Lemonade Stand affirms the age-old wisdom that the power and responsibility to heal our communities rest in our own hands.

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A Google user
December 3, 2010
Thank you James! I have been hoping for a book just like this! Not just a wholistic viewpoint but an actual "how to guide" approach on almost every page! The ideas provided by seminar participants is encouraging that we are "not alone" in our vision of a more caring future! I love the 6 circles way to process it all and how it brings everyone in on change, not just the cliche' bleeding hearts! We are all in this together, now we can begin to assign tasks!! Would love to see a community intensive pilot project and results...sequel... Lisa Auciello Northside Community Council Cincinnati Ohio
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James Vollbracht is president of Higher Ground Associates, an organization focusing on building connected communities for kids, and a senior trainer, coordinator, and consultant for Search Institute and their national Healthy Community/Healthy Youth Initiative.

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