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in the district. all of the -- all of the district housing, public housing has wi-fi. there are programs that take computers, for example, from a law firm and they refurbish them and provide them to families. but the big thing is it is one thing to get somebody a computer, somebody helps them to be able to take advantage of it. so we want to put together giving the computers and schooling in terms of using it, and it is really critical for the kids, it really is. they don't want to get behind in their digital because if they do it is a real problem. >> in this day and time it would be. >> so we would devote a lot of money to that and we're explore thang. >> te >>. >> tell us about golf. >> we have a golf outing in may. the last few years we've been play

northern virginia, and it is a beautiful course. very difficult, but it is very scenic out there in loudoun county really. so it is kind of surrounded by homes, and robert griffin, iii used to live there, and ironically the coach who lived next door to him was the coach of the redskins and the two didn't get along. >> okay. >> so it is kind of a funny thing. >> a little awkward there. >> not for us, it was okay. we never saw either one of them either. >> we should mention that news 4's leon harris has worked for some time with your foundation and also will be emceeing the gala on the 9th of dels. >> ydecember. >> yes, he will. what leon does in the community is really spectacular. >> we think he is pretty spectacu t

a successful background in politics. you worked for the vice president as his press secretary, you were the u.s. representative to unicef, the united nations children's fund. are you still involved in politics or are you done with that? >> i am -- i'm done with it actually. i think about it all the time, and sometimes i think to myself, gee, it would be nice to get back in this, but when i think of 5:00 a.m. baggage calls, one thing and another and, you know, you're on the road for six out of the seven days, it is hard. i mean you -- excuse me. you get worn out and there's a lot of pressure in it. so now i like to pick up the phone and talk to some of my friends who are in politics and give them some free advice. >> do they listen? >> yeah, they do. they do listen. the question is do they convey it to the people that can actually do

i must confess too as a lifelong republican, i signed on to the hillary clinton campaign and tried to provide some input there for them, and they were great. i mean they were wide open. you could -- you could provide ideas and you could have discussions and arguments even, and it is unfortunate that she was not successful. >> but it sounds like you were a big fan of bipartisanship, and that's a good thing. >> yeah, yeah, it is. i have always been that way. you know, george bush was always reaching across the aisle and jacob javits was one of the most liberal republicans and he worked with the democrats all the time. so, yeah, that's kind of my -- i'm very, very moderate in those respect. >> well, you're certainly a mover and shaker on behalf of the children in this region who really need help. so we're very happy to highlight some of the work of your

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the student-athletes organized to understand leadership, soul for short, is a sports-based youth program. it collaborates with d.c. public schools and helps youth in low income and high crime neighborhoods. donald curtis is soul director. thank you for being with us for this part of the show. you are a relatively new grantee working with the children's foundation. >> yes, i am. >> last year was your first year? >> first year. >> so you use athletics as a catalyst for social change, to help break the cycle of poverty in some

and you do it with four signature programs. let's talk about some of those. >> sure. >> first is your college access study hall. >> that program started -- is a way for us to figure out how to engage students who are involved in sports to make it to the next level. i believe every kid who puts on a basketball jersey or a football jersey has some dream of going to college, but they don't know how to get there. so this program is a study hall that has college access points connected to it. so clearing house, s.a.t. prep, essay writing, scholarship identification, research. >> helps them get receipty ady in. >> yes. >> your sister circle. >> it grew from study hall and we tried to present young women a study hall mech nifanism. they were like, we have good grades, our issues are things based around woman hood, who am i, what am i dealing with. we did a program focusing on

of young girls. it has led to a lot of the work we do even with our young boys in our young boy's round table that focuses on who is the person behind the athlete, what are the things you are dealing with. >> your third program is the summer institute. >> it started in public housing taking basketball to a public housing community. as the program grew up, kids showed up more, we realized we had to have a better space, a more secure space. you can't run the program in the middle of the project. we took it to dcps. we ran it out of a spring garden high school. it is funny because the first cohort of students now in high school, and i have some of the students in the program in high school so they've grown with us. >> and the fourth is the graduate with a plan. >> that program started when we started working with alternative education school lucas seamore.

high school without a plan you are doom to repeat the cycle of poverty. we took that program and sprinkled it into everything we did. every kid that graduates from high school should have plan. we look at the numbers, statistics, the data about how the kids are graduating and moving on, bull they gradua but what? if you have no plan you're doomed. >> that's a good life lesson. you started a new program recently called round table. what do you do with that? >> we work with at risk young males at two high schools and identify them based on exactly that. you know, we get references from the schools, we bring in resources. kids self-select. you can come in, you can opt out, but at the end of the day what we provide is such a good service and we bring in so many resources most of them stay. we work -- we partner with the -- with the attorney general's office. we bring in restorative justice counsellors to talk to our young men about what t

to shoot for. at h.d. wilson, that's the name, we had a young man we worked with meet with marines to talk about seven habits of effective people. what are the skill sets? what do you need to do to be positive young man, focus on like the future, build a family, work your way to middle class if not higher. >> yeah, that's a great book, too, kobe's book. how old are the athletes that you work with and how do they get into your program? >> sure. in high school we range from 14, a traditional high school 14 to 17, 18. at the alternative high schools we have kids from 16 to sometimes 22. these students are selected to be in the program based on either reference from a school counsellor, part of a sports team. if i walk into the high school and i see you in the hallway and i want you to, you know, recruit

we also have a presence in public housing. we partner with groups, we have one group in particular, city gate, and we actually work with them. so we have a presence. those kids are 10 to 12 years old, sometimes 14 years old. >> how do they reach you and do you charge for the programs? >> it is free for all high school -- i mean for all d.c. residents. one of the things is i'm raising money to keep this program going. i am very clear when i talk to our kids that i give you knowing for free, you earn everything you get, and the payment is your work. but www.soulprograms.org is our website. you can catch us there. >> donald curtis, great work. >> thank you. >> thank you for telling us about it. >> thank you for being with us. that's "news4 your sunday." i'm pat lawson muse. thanks for tuning in. ♪

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