Name: Mary Hutt
School: Royal Oak High School

Due to unforseen hardships, my sons world was turned upside down. Raising an emothionally healthy child is not an easy task for anyone these days, even those c...
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Name: Mindy Frink-Crimmins
School: St. Regis

When I took the course "Reaching Higher", I was already in my 30's. I had been through lots of pain, made many mistakes, and was very much "just surviving". A...
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Name: Kathleen Knapp
School: Royal Oak High School

Little did I know what this course would offer our students. The 30 students that we chose were higher risk students, and they were having a very difficult tim...
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Name: Krista McKinney-King

The Reaching Higher program proved to be quite a positive force for my counselees at Crockett. As the African proverb says, "it takes a village to raise a child...
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Name: Kayla Broaddus
School: Royal Oak High School

Reaching Higher has helped me out with my life a lot! It has taught me to forget about the past, and move on with life. (Remembering only makes it all happen a...
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Name: Tomas Espinosa
School: St. Regis

I am very happy that I took the Reaching Higher program. I now have much more confidence and the ability to speak out. There are many people who would rather ...
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Name: Patrick Taylor
Grade: 5th

The Reaching Higher group has put in a lot of time and effort in order to help me make the right choices. I've learned to believe more in myself and not let wha...
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Name: Paco Higdon

Reaching Higher was a positive experience for me. It has been a benefit for me in multiple ways. For example, after we did the stump exercise, I wasn't as afrai...
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Name: Paige Moorer
School: Crockett Technical High School
Grade: 10th

When I first got into the Reaching Higher program, I didn't know what I was there for. I thought I didn't have problems and little did I know that I was stressi...
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Name: Allie Farrand
School: St. Regis

What Reaching Higher taught me.Reaching Higher gave me the strength to understand myself better. It taught me that when others tease me it is their own insecuri...
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Name: Orlando Bailey

I can remember like it was yesterday. I walked into Room 111 at Remus Robinson Middle School, only to receive nothing but love and a Polaroid picture of myself....
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Name: Brenda Belcher
School: Crockett Technical High School

I can vividly recall my first meeting with Sue Dahlmann, Director of Reaching Higher, and her passionate and persuasive appeal to offer Reaching Higher to the s...
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