New mentoring program aims to keep kids in school
07/08/2008 15:39:01

By Eric Stock

     This week's 20 Stars for Life event at the Lafayette Club in Bloomington will help jumpstart a program aimed at keeping kids in school. The Great Plains LIFE Foundation is launching 'Stay 4' -- meaning stay all four years of high school, something 72,000 Illinois students didn't do in last year.

The Foundation's Development Director Paul Segobiano tells WJBC's Ron Ross the program offers mentoring help to get to the core reason children drop out.

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'Stay 4' has funding to help 45 high school students, including three at each public high school in Bloomington-Normal.

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