Focus on Youth (1206)

This program examines the challenges facing today's teens and programs to help them survive. The Horizon Teen Center's The Choice Is Mine program shows how teens are taking positive steps toward handling many of today's tough issues. Then our studio guest is an ex-con who founded the Friends of the Lifers' Youth Corp, a program that works with teens 12 - 21 with troubled juvenile backgrounds, to assist in changing the direction of their troubled past so they become productive assets to the community. Brief performances by students at the Cicely Tyson School of Fine and Performing Arts are shown throughout the program.

Guests - Diane Scott, Director, Education & teen Services, Horizon Teen Center - Mel Gattis, Adult Counselor, Horizon Teen Center - Harvey George, Founder, Friends of the Lifers' Youth Corp., Inc.