Troubled Teens Get a Fresh Start
07/18/2013
Teens learn to follow directions and make projects in wood-working class.
Hello! How are you? I’m Jim Tedder in Washington with another edition of As It Is on the Voice of America. Today we do not have to travel far from the VOA studios to find out about a program designed to help young people in trouble. It is called Fresh Start, and I think you will like what you hear.
Then we’ll talk about flattops, jumbos, and six strings and maple and spruce…yes …guitars …and a special group of women who once made them while the men were away at war. As It Is …a ten minute tune-up to help you learn English!
Many young people who get into trouble with the law are expelled from school. They may even go to jail. Helping these teens change their way of life takes a lot of effort. But it is not impossible. There is a program in the Washington D.C. area that takes young men, sent there by the courts or social workers, and gives them a new chance at life.
Twelve young men, 16 and 19 years old, attend classes at the program, which is called Fresh Start. Each one has made some bad decisions. But they want to turn their lives around, to live a different way. One young man explains how he got into trouble.
“I got into a couple of fights or something and that led to me actually getting detained.”
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