Kyli’s Story
Kyli wasn’t having problems with the law, and her grades weren’t really suffering. Instead, her problems were more with relationships at school. Kyli was ready for a change, and she found the tools she needed in PRIDE.
Two years ago, when Kyli was in eighth grade, she wasn’t having problems with the law, and her grades weren’t really suffering. Instead, her problems were more with relationships at school.
“I was fighting with my teachers, harassing the principals and fighting with the kids,” she says.
Kyli was ready for a change, and she found the tools she needed in Personal Responsibility In Development and Ethics (PRIDE). For her, the program’s mentors made the biggest impact.
“They really help you and try to just be there and give you a shoulder to lean on,” she claims. “Most kids come in not being able to lean on their parents, so they just get into gangs or do drugs. I’m really close to Tom [a PRIDE mentor]. He’s like my dad, and he’s the one I lean on. That’s what really changed me.”
Now, she picks better friends, is getting better grades and wants to go to college.
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Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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