Under the scheme, community representatives, professionals working in the area and senior managers responsible for services come together to identify the main social problems where they live.
Participants are given training and then design an action plan. The community leaders try to address the problems identified by improving existing local services or by introducing new ones.
The Joseph Rowntree Trust funded a five-year trial of the scheme in the UK between 1998 and 2003 before the UK licence for the programme was awarded to the charity Rainer in 2006. Rainer, which has since been renamed as Catch22, ran the programme in a number of local authority areas until 2008.
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