It’s Time: G-Parents, Parents, Women & Men
Grandparents, parents, men and women we need to start making sure the village is concern and making every possible effort to ensure the safety of every child. We need to look at some facts and start making some rational decisions and start getting involved.
The cost implications of such an epidemic are serious. An ounce of prevention is far more cost-effective than crisis care when children get sick or into trouble, drop out of school or suffer family breakdown.
�?� The total cost for of educating a student yearly is about $6,500.
�?� The total cost for a kindergarten to high school graduation education is almost $85,000.
�?� The Average cost of mentoring a child for a year is $ 1,000
�?� The annual per child cost of a high quality after-school program is $ 2,700.
�?� The cost of providing a year of employment training for unemployed youth is $ 3,448.
• The cost for a year of public education in Texas is $7,246 per pupil.
�?� The average annual per child cost of Head Start is $7,326
• The average cost of incarcerating a child is about $67,890 a year.
�?� Because of the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® crisis, Black boys born in 2001 have a one in three lifetime chance of going to prison, Hispanic boys a one in six chance and White boys a one in seventeen chance of the same fate.
By dismantling the Pipeline, all of America will benefit from a strong, self-sustaining workforce, decreased crime rates and lower taxes through a reduction in the prison population and lower rates of recidivism. We created the Pipeline, and we have the power, knowledge and will to dismantle it.
Thanks to the Children Defense Fund: