The Need By the Numbers

• More than 40 percent of your people doubt they can achieve their goals.

• 70 percent wish they had more opportunities to help them fulfill their dreams.
• Fewer than 60 percent feel a sense of purpose
• Fewer than 65 percent are motivated to achieve
• Fewer than 30 percent feel they have skills like planning and decision-making.
• 25 percent of all public high school students fail to graduate on time, if at all.
• 50 percent of Afican-Americans and Hispanics fail to gradate on time, if at all.
• 75 percent of those incarcerated did not graduate from high school.
• 85 percent of adolescents who get training in success skills graduate on time, resulting in a 50 percent drop in welfare dependency.