It was developed after seeing several members of my family get incarcerated. As a child, I witnessed numerous negative interactions with police and brutality within my own community. Government officials running for a political campaign would come to our neighborhood to take photos with young people and use them in their political campaign, but they never interacted or truly understood our concerns. I have become one of the few anomalies in my community. Because all the negativity I experienced in my community did not divert my expectations of graduating or even graduating a year early. The benefits of a system is that it would partner individual police officers and local government officials such as mayors and county commissioners with young people, allowing them to mentor children from disadvantaged communities. This would allow children from divided communities and raised by a single-parent home to mend the rift caused by the abandonment of their missing parent. By allowing communities as a whole to participate in that child's development, an old African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Each month, a counselor met with that child to review and document progress. The disadvantage would be the time required for this research. Another problem would be the challenge of convincing students to open up and bond with those who are different
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