Eddie Boyce is the founder and Executive Director of the Coalition for Youth/Adult Diversion Programs.
Their work involves mentoring and changing the habits of at-risk young adults to help make them successful.
“Imagine if you’ve never had any structure and somebody says well now the majority of your life you’ve been doing whatever you want … you can’t do that,” said Boyce. “You got to get up at 8 A.M. and you got meetings. And that transfers to what you want them to do in life. I got a job, I got to be at my job. It’s rewiring somebody that is 19 or 20 or 21. I got to be an adult as well.”…