By Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics Editor, New Haven Register

NEW HAVEN — Bill Strickland has found some solutions to big problems, and he came to the city Thursday to spread the message.

Strickland, 60, spent four decades establishing a successful model in his hometown of Pittsburgh to motivate poor kids and adults to break out of poverty….

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by Paul Bass, New Haven Independent

Bill Strickland came to town to begin planning a New Haven version of a successful center to train urban teens and adults facing hard times.

Strickland, founder of a model arts and vo-tech center in Pittsburgh, offered his vision to 60 movers and shakers gathered at the Lawn Club for lunch Thursday.

The target of his vision: “the people everybody’s giving up on and have no hope.”

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By Abby Mendelson for Pop City Media

He stood there, in Pitt’s Alumni Hall, beaming, accepting well deserved praise for latest achievement, Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary, a book summing up his wholly remarkable life and philosophy — that art brought into life can transform people, that building arts centers creates artists, while building prisons creates prisoners….

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