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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it would help, but it starts too late. I think it needs to begin during the prenatal period because stress hormones during pregnancy can affect the baby’s brain development and future mental health. There should be free, high quality programs to enrich babies and toddlers and universal pre-K3. Teach anger management and conflict resolution to young kids. Provide high quality after school programs until 6 pm so kids are less likely to be unsupervised. Offer jobs and apprenticeships to every 14 to 18 year old and put a matching amount in a savings account that can be used for college, trade school, or entrepreneurship.[/quote]

I agree with this - do more to help with prenatal care, child care, free metro cards if you make under a certain amount so its easy to get to work and make it so that families who are trying to make it work can support themselves, move easily to better neighborhoods near jobs and create a life for their family.  Focusing entirely on teens is missing the boat .  Also add more trade programs so teens who are not studious still get a benefit from going to school like in nY where they have BOCES where kids enrolled in it spend the second half of the high school day doing free job training in their area of interest so when they graduate HS they have a trade.  Here kids have to spend tons of $$ on predatory programs that teach how to be a health tech etc... where in NY it can be part of HS[/quote]

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