In Their Own Words
May 1, 2014
The Mentoring Effect, Mentoring Stories
America’s Promise Alliance recently released a groundbreaking study called “Don’t Call Them Dropouts”,which takes an in depth look at the stories of youth who left high school before graduating. In this powerful video, young people like Nico talk about the clusters of factors that led them off the path toward high school graduation and the critical supports they were missing in their lives at the time.
“What youth really need is that main person they can actually talk to…to be comfortable and open up to and let that one person know about their life.” -Nico, 21