Word: mentored
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...change it,” she says. Martin recognizes that he is in a unique position with regard to his high school peers. “I feel more of an obligation,” he says. “Not so much as a role model—mentor might be a better word.” He has written peer recommendations for some students and is also available to answer any questions they might have about college in general. “I hope that I can provide something positive for them,” Martin says...
After completing a course of court-ordered drug treatment, Cruz, 37, got her baby back and moved last September into the Antioch, Calif., home of Barbara Funderburk, a mentor paid to teach Cruz the basics of good parenting. Together Cruz and Funderburk, a mother of two, planned meals, made budgets and discussed how to hold down a job and raise a family. "This is a new thing for me, to not be high and have a baby," says Cruz, who graduated from the program early and has spent the past three weeks setting up a new life in San Jose...
...that have been done are promising: children whose parents complete the program are only half as likely to re-enter the child-welfare system as those whose families reunite after foster care; the number of participant parents (mostly mothers) with a job doubles after they have lived with a mentor; and living conditions for these families once they're on their own are much improved...
...wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder but is not a suspect. "I would come in with rhymes, almost free verse, and he explained that they had to fit 16 bars...
...compares Harvard professors to his mentor Turnbull...