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02419aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 2405BDE45D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 190526t20192019xxu 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780252042997 020 $a 0252042999 035 $a (OCoLC)1102476265 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d BRG $d LF3 $d JAS $d OCLCF $d IAS $d SILO 100 1 $a Carr, Robert Owen $e author. 245 10 $a First Chance : $b How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything / $c Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b GSBF Media, $c [2019] 300 $a xvii, 203 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "'First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything', examines the remarkable triumphs of young people considered least likely to attain a college degree: those who have experienced foster care (three percent graduation rate) or the incarceration of a parent, especially a mother (two percent graduation rate). Some 2.7 million schoolchildren have experienced parental incarceration, while nearly 500,000 are declared wards of the state annually. Yet their experiences receive little attention. The young people themselves are frequently hesitant to talk about their lives, burdened with a sense of shame, even though they are blameless. Philanthropist and author Robert O. Carr has turned the focus of his college scholarship program, Give Something Back, on these often forgotten and neglected kids. As their stories reveal, they have the smarts and drive to compete with peers from more comfortable backgrounds. The author argues that these young people can draw on their special and painful insights to forge powerful change, provided society acknowledges them - and extends a first chance." -- $c Amazon.com 610 20 $a Give Something Back. 650 0 $a Scholarships $z United States. 650 0 $a Youth $x Services for $z United States. 650 0 $a Social work with youth $z United States. 650 7 $a Scholarships. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01432095 650 7 $a Social work with youth. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123565 650 7 $a Youth $x Services for. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01183511 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 700 1 $a Johnson, Dirk, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015539.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2405BDE45D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search