Jimmy Keller
Program helps at-risk youths
By DONALD LEE
Advocate columnist
Published: Jun 9, 2007 - Page: 7b
When I wrote a piece two years ago on the Louisiana National Guard's Youth ChalleNGe Program, I was impressed to learn from the young cadets just how much being in the program meant to them and how it helped them to turn their lives around after they'd dropped out of school.
Mike Nichols
Oregon ChalleNGe pair show how to make the most of mentoring
By: Lauren Bryar, NCI Staff Writer
Mike Nichols sounds like a proud parent when he informs mentor coordinator, Joel Garibay, of former ChalleNGe Cadet Ivan Snegirev's post graduation success. "Ivan is doing amazingly well… I am thrilled at what has happened in Ivan's life," Nichols writes.
Shondrika Dixon
Gillis Long Graduate, "COMPASSIONATE, DEPENDABLE" Worker
A MAJOR DECISION
Her future and her baby's seemed dismal. Shondrika Dixon was a 17-year-old single mother with no direction and no plans for the future. Although she wanted to complete high school, she found it too difficult to continue and adequately care for her baby.
The Haveners
Husband and Wife Mentor Brother and Sister
THE ROAD TO CHALLENGE
Tim Nelson mentors ChalleNGe graduate John Havener, and his wife Betty mentors John's sister, graduate Stacy Stephens. John graduated from the Florida Youth ChalleNGe Academy (FLYCA) in 2002, and Stacy graduated a year later.
