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What the whole hook is, getting out and doing the outreach to the kids. So, i mean, yes, prevention, thats the tack we took and it was a good deal because these guys, bill, this is not their main thing. The main thing is being a leader and presenting this message but at the end of our presentation to the fte, at the end of the semester when we complete something, they get a scholarship at the end. So that money goes back into the community. The kids spend it in school or out in the community so it just revolves. So its a winwin for us. The money gets paid to these guys and they put it back in ...

Many students that we did on this outreach and hit them with the numbers it would be, like, oh, thumbs up, the school wrote us a letter, our da, our District Attorney to come see us, she wrote us a letter, so thats how you fund it. What hes mentioning is the former chancellor of the Los Rios College district, the former chancellor is now the statewide chancellor of community colleges, brad ferris who recently retired and now is the state chancellor of community colleges. He me out and saw us, surprised us one day. I felt like one of those dogs that wont stop rubbing against your leg. He really...

He has a whole other job. We used to go out and do two performances a week so we were doing 16 or 18 but its just with the manpower shortage, since 2007 our Theater Department has lost like 40 percent of what we usually do. I know that noels department, hes lost people and programs and hopefully things are going to get better. It says a lot for the program when in rough budget times, were still around. So we meet a lot of students. Success stories of kids who were going the wrong way . As a matter of fact, the first couple semesters, where we did a break out session, where we break out with th...

Presented it was we can sit there and hook and book, arrest them, we can do the suppression all the time, but there is no Community Outreach and thats what the whole hook is, getting out and doing the outreach to the kids. So, i mean, yes, prevention, thats the tack we took and it was a good deal because these guys, bill, this is not their main thing. The main thing is being a leader and presenting this message but at the end of our presentation to the fte, at the end of the semester when we complete something, they get a scholarship at the end. So that money goes back into the community. The ...

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