Sunday, January 26, 2014
making a difference through disadvantaged teens
YEAR UP is an organization to help America's most disadvantaged teens become successful. They are not only taught technical, but social skills. Almost everyone in the YEAR UP program have come from hardships. A wall street veteran decided to start this program to help a lot of America's most disadvantaged teens and helping them to get to the top. He was in a Big brother's program where he was a mentor for a young man that he knew had potential but didn't have any good home influence to get him to the top. Later he decided to start the program. President Obama actually visited the Washington DC site to talk to some of the teens in the program. The wall street veteran thinks that social skills are very important through work.
What a great program for helping kids find their ambition. And to think that someone that was a big guy from WALL STREET would do a program like this for young adults. This is from the 60 minutes website.
Cameron Ordinario
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I agree - this is a great thing! There are a lot of disadvantaged kids in our country, and we'll fall behind in the world if we don't do something about it. It's also great that they're learning social skills, because half of getting a job is presenting yourself well. I hope this is successful in helping kids go places in their lives.
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