Seattle mentoring program turning troubled boys into successful men Q13's Alyana Gomez reports. SEATTLE - When opportunity came knocking, Elijah Williams was willing to take the chance. The 16-year-old was caught in a vicious cycle, following the school-to-prison pipeline in Seattle. "On the path I was headed I really wasn’t going to be nothing," Williams said. "I was more of a follower. I wanted to be like everyone else, kids running around trying to gang bang, trying to be like all the older people, looking up to them. I guess I really took a different path even though we were going to end up the same anyways. They were probably going to be in jail, I was going to be living off my mom, and probably get to the point where maybe even be homeless."