NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER YOUTH MARCH 10-16, 2010 B5
GOALS—Goals are set by young Black males at the North Side Urban Pathways charter school in a
Benefiting African American Males (BAAM) mentoring meeting. This mentoring program is to help
young Black males get into and complete college when stats show that many of them drop out of col- DETERMINING GOALS—Mentors Paul Spradley, left, and Mark Schnupp, right, work with Toni
lege in their freshman year. At this meeting the mentors helped their charges learn what a goal is and Rollins, Quinton Avery, Leslie Thompson, Chris Richardson and Walter Hall, to help come up with
how to achieve it. Above: Mentors talk about goal setting. What is a goal and how do you achieve the goals for these young men and help them follow through by showing them some of the steps they
goals you set for yourself, step by step? need in order to achieve their goals.
Urban Pathways mentor young Black males
PHOTOS BY J.L. MARTELLO
ACHIEVING GOALS—Top: John Walton, who works for an insurance company, is a BAAM mentor
working with Corey Greenhowe on one of three goals he has to come up with. Corey’s goal was to
get an A in biology and Walton showed him some steps to achieve that goal. Middle: Theodore Jones,
a plant tech, mentors Durran Roberts, 14, on his short, mid-term and longterm goals. Bottom: Rev-
erend Dwight Dumas works with Joshua Beverly and LaRon Watkins to help them find what they
would like to, what goals are and how to achieve them.
PURSUING HIS GOAL—Chris Richardson, 15, says, “I found out
what I wanted to pursue in college and that is business so I can
become a businessman.”
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