Officials believed healthy individuals create healthy community, never the reverse

Evidence

Social workers pressed the idea that once they created good, solid individuals, that community life would follow, rather than the other way around. That is, they clearly communicated the idea that healthy individuals create healthy community, but not that healthy community life also creates healthy individuals. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 419

Categorization

• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 419