Baisden is encouraging adults to mentor young people. Tonight, he hosted a mentoring forum at Bishop State Community College. Baisden says that having positive role models for kids will stop them from turning to violence to solve their problems. He says mentors must be there when many parents today cannot.
"We have a lot of incarcerated parents now and drug-addicted parents and parents who just don't know," says Baisden. "So what are we gonna do? The only option is for us to step up and fill in that gap. We can't just take care of our own kids. We have to take care of the kid down the street, who may not have that support."
Baisden hopes to get one million Americans signed up as mentors.
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