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Any youth from 14 to 22 can have a government paid summer job.
Any youth in public or public charter school can have free lunch and free breakfast.
There are numerous sports and recreation leagues---basketball, football, soccer, tennis, plus organizations that will provide sports equipment to kids who need it
There are numerous organizations that provide mentors (e.g., boys and girls club).

There is no shortage in this city of do-gooder organizations and government money to help needy children.
What there is NOT is any type of accountability for lousy parents.   There is also a child protective services system that is focused on "family reunification" to the detriment of the best interests of the child---where kids are put through a revolving door of foster care/return to dsyfunctional home/back to foster care, etc.    And don't come back and talk about how poverty is the cause of poor parenting, because there are poor families who are NOT poor parents.   There are also any number of government programs/set asides/training programs to help adults who want to work.  [/quote]

The cause is trauma, what do you think should be done about that?[/quote]

Well, yes and no. Other communities also carry trauma, both in recent memory and across generations. Not all communities have this same result. Trauma is part of this but not the whole story. [/quote]

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