rocky. you don't have someone telling you, you can be whatever you want to be, a doctor or a lawyer, so you start looking up to the wrong people. >> harris spent nine months in a juvenile detention center when he was 17, a common experience for many young men of color in alameda county, which includes oakland. here black and latino youth account for nearly 90% of those detained in juvenile hall. school drop-out and unemployment rates for that population are among the highest in the country, but while he was in juvenile hall, harris' life took a dramatic turn when he was recruited for a new county program that not only trained him how to be an emt but profoundly altered what he thought he could do with his life. >> come on. >> one, two, three, four, five, six. >> the program is called ems corps. 25 students in the current class were practicing basic life support skills under the watchful eye of their instructor. >> the chest rise and falls. >> so go through. >> i'm an emt. i'm here to help you. >> it's an intensive five-month emt certification force for men between the ages 18 and 26 who have completed high school or earned a ged. >> i fe