she make me feel smart like if I don't have homework she would just like give me some MTH questions that she would see me do it inside of my classroom Payton Chay is a bright young and thriving Metro Detroit 11-year-old despite facing a difficult childhood associated with trauma with her mother in jail and her father not present her grandmother Tori Shai stepped in and adopted pton and got her into the friends of the children program the program pirs children ages 4 to 6 with a paid professional
Mentor or a friend from kindergarten through High School it was like a big sister Aunt um she loves and respects her every child needs a best friend more importantly a role model like Ezekiel peoples friends like Ezekiel peoples help their little friends tackle everything from homework to emotional development I'm sitting with them I'm making sure they're staying focused they're on track um if they need like a little bit of encouragement to participate with whatever is going on I'm there to hel
p them out as well and outside of school the character development continues we also have five specific uh road map goals that we want to hit so we work on school Success um proo Social Development we work on improved Health making good choices and plans and skills for the future the friends program has many impressive outcomes helping change the life path for many children who face adversity growing up in metro Detroit Ezekiel became a mentor to give back had I not had this leadership with this
guidance in my life I don't know where I'd be at Desa Brown is the ex Ive director here in Detroit she says the program offers a stable support system with the ultimate goal of building a solid foundation for future success because sometimes all it takes is a friend we give them structure we give them a paid professional Mentor who again walks alongside them for 12 plus years no matter what I don't know how they find people of such good character you can't pay for that that's just something dif
ferent reporting in Detroit I'm Peter Maxwell 7 Action News
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