'We have to create hope': Schools, residents team up, reach out to troubled kids

Hundreds of city-area young people are leaving school without adequate social or academic skills – teens whose “readiness for future success in life is virtually nonexistent.”
The trend has troubling implications for the Greater Johnstown area, its job market and its social fabric.
Two local residents have spent months laying groundwork for a potential remedy:
A large-scale mentoring program that will involve hundreds of adults, dozens of local agencies and three school districts.....more>>