Program Helps at-Risk Youth in N.O. Avoid Prison Path
New Orleans City Business › November 03, 2008
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Youth advocate Renell Gibbs was making the rounds at Alexander P. Tureaud Elementary School when he got the news -- a 10-year old boy he mentors threatened to kill his Spanish teacher.
Gibbs sat down the troubled child. He didn't yell at him. Gibbs asked the boy what was wrong, why did he do what he did -- and listened. The boy opened up to his 27-year-old mentor the way he wouldn't to his teachers, Gibbs said. He said he was having a bad day, that no one would listen to him, and his frustration and anger boiled over.See the full content of this document
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Program Helps at-Risk Youth in N.O. Avoid Prison Path
Among young children, the boy's complaints were common but his reaction indicated something more troubling simmering beneath the surface.
Gibbs calmed the boy down and the next day esc...See the full content of this document
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