Make a Chess Move sees the game as a check on kids who could get in trouble.
But while things have worked out Douglas, life doesn't always go as smoothly for others.
"Once that was done for me, I had nothing else," Wedgeworth says."This is my seventh year out of prison." Like Wedgeworth, though, his older brother ended up in prison after he lost the supportive structure of YouthBiz.Rather than limit itself to an after-school program, MACM builds long-term relationships with its participants and gives kids the opportunity to stay on as employees to help grow the organization.Both Hill and Aaron Smith, MACM's program coordinator, started at MACM as teenagers; now in their early twenties, they are among the first generation of MACM leaders.
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