Center for Peer Driven Change

History is replete with examples of people helping themselves and each other from barn raisings to building entire all-Black towns after slavery. All before there was a ‘helping sector’. Today there is a growing awareness that outsider driven solutions are failing to close the gap in wealth and social standing. It is important to now shift the leadership, responsibility, and resources back to the very people we want to help. Hidden is the fact that, just as in history, even our poorest communities have the capacity to lead their own change when they work together. The role of well-intended professionals has to change in what is an emerging new field for social change called ‘Peer-driven Change’.