(FEI - 2000)
Your Time Their Future
Frank could have been the average American teen-ager. But with profound family, drug and behavioral problems, and almost completely without resources, Frank was anything but average. He'd drifted into an alternative school for troubled youths, where, despite special classes, Frank's principal still considered him "the worst kid of the whole lot." Clearly, Frank was in a downward spiral with little hope of reversing the direction.
However, Elizabeth Müller, program coordinator at the Freeport Youth Outreach Center, refused to give up on the teen-ager. She matched him with a mentor, Dr. Lawrence Brennan, who found Frank an after-school job. More importantly, Dr. Brennan promised to meet with Frank for a few hours every week to talk and relax, and eventually to become a friend and confidant.
The results were powerful. In one semester, Frank switched from the alternative school to a regular junior high school and became an honor roll student. Since then he has never missed a class, mentor meeting or day of work.
"All he needed was to be given some purpose and direction," Brennan says.
Encarte do Reader's Digest, October 1998.
"Your time, their future"
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