When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.
This is notable because the 1990s marked the period when both US and Israeli foreign policies centered on repeated attempts to appease all three governments.
This evidence based program has tracked results through Vanderbilt University for three years and has seen, not just person-centered change but also community-centered change led by the 270 graduate families of Tied Together.