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YouthBuild Charter School of California - Alumni Stories (2015)

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Hear from YouthBuild Charter School of California alumni about their YouthBuild experiences and what made YCSC different from other schools they attended.

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my name is Mike Loredo California I left high school because I had a ride family problems going on and I really didn't get support from anywhere I caught various felony cases in and out of juvenile hall system in and out of the foster care system how was I going downhill ended up in juvenile Halls did eight came out my aunt Cassandra referred me to you could go anywhere else at first I was there because I didn't add to be for very very soon just the attitudes and the motivational speeches and just the overall environment I just deal with all the staff members and everything completely changed my mind maybe want to become a successful person really help me change as a person and Leadership isn't something that's a part of like a regular high school you know the regular High School is just get your education you know of Paget's in that's pretty much about it was different by for me smaller crowd and I felt very welcomed their support and thought about you know helping people are just really really influenced me and it made me a success where do you live where the place in the community and that really helped me like think outside the box and become more involved in this is staying focused on different learning styles of different students Ralph at the end of every semester we had a combination project where we would go out and do community service we get a health fair which where were we invited and threw out flyers to the entire community and everybody was invited but they made it acacian more exciting and effect states with their time you know whether it was after school or before school or during it was basically just help you from the gecko and they will make things easier much more interesting it wasn't like oh you know you guys got to do this you know so are you like the homework assignment or whatever I just tell you to do it and it would take you you know step-by-step you and they're not going to give up on you and I would get to this place where I feel like I can't do anything they're old maybe they're telling me I could do it and if the end what happened I did

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