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88 cents out of every dollar supports community services for people in need.
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Kevin is described as a troubled youth
with a heart of gold by the adults who work with him. An eighth grader
who has relatives in prison, he used to think
that going to jail would
be his destiny as well.
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Then, Kevin started going to mentoring night at a local church, the Dominion & Power Ministries. This congregation is one of several participants in Volunteers of America’s Mentoring Children of Promise program. There, Kevin met Shawn Henry, who is the son of the church’s minister and a sheriff’s deputy in Jefferson Parish.
Henry became Kevin’s mentor and friend. Henry also changed Kevin’s view of the police. Now, Kevin thinks Henry is cool and a nice police officer. Sometimes, all it takes to change the perspective, and the life, of a youth is a few hours of time each week.
Henry volunteered with the program because he saw so many young men in trouble. In his job at the Correctional Center, he talked with young inmates and recognized that they came from homes and communities with social and economic problems. He noticed, too, that the criminals were getting younger and becoming repeat offenders.
With a burning desire to make things better, Henry and other mentors are doing all they can do show young people a better way.
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