Juvenile Justice Information Exchange (https://jjie.org/tag/drop-outs/)
I discovered my purpose when I was 21 years old, and the man I’d tackled during a pick-up football game shot me three times in my legs. He was upset that I’d tackled him so hard. It made me want, profoundly, to understand my fellow player’s extraordinary anger and, perhaps, that of other Black and brown kids whose life circumstances had pushed them down the wrong path ...
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation offers the Pathways Out of Poverty Grant. This grant will help prevent low-income students and at-risk kids from dropping out of school. The grant aims to bring attention to the needs of kids and issues surrounding the factors that cause them to quit or to consider quiting school. The grant should find ways to help kids and nurture them so that they can move forward through their education to become successful members of the community.