Subject
Becoming A Man; Boston; Youth Guidance
Description
It was the snacks – especially all that pizza – that reeled Thomas Thermidor into a classroom at English High School in Jamaica Plain four years ago and introduced him to a program that eventually would help change the trajectory of his life.
“I was like, ‘Oooh, this is pretty cool,’” Thermidor, a freshman at the time, said. “You can’t question much about free food.”
His friends were there for an elective called “Becoming a Man,” a mentoring program run by a nonprofit called Youth Guidance.
From then on, every Wednesday, he showed up for BAM and found in it a brotherhood based on its six core values: integrity, accountability, self-determination, positive anger expression, respect for womanhood and visionary goal-setting.
Creator
By MARIE SZANISZLO | marie.szaniszlo@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
Source
https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/02/a-program-shows-underserved-youngsters-all-that-is-possible/
Publisher
bostonherald.com
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