In the inner city, a summer job can be a lifesaver
Friday, July 11, 2008
By W. Zachary Malinowski, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE
A part-time summer job may have saved Anthony Ericastilla’s life.
The teenager struggled through his freshman year at Hope High School. He skipped school, hung out with gang members and was disrespectful to his parents, immigrants from Guatemala who had moved to the city’s Silver Lake neighborhood in search of a better life.
Anthony’s mother, Corina Barraza, was at wit’s end. She turned to the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence, in South Providence, for help. The institute welcomed Barraza and the staff expressed concern for her plight. They assigned three streetworkers to her son and helped him get a job in the agency’s Beloved Community Summer Jobs Program.
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