Brotherhood-SisterSol

Educational Achievement*	Outcome
Alumni who either graduated from high school or received GED:	94%
Alumni graduated from high school:	88%
Alumni accepted to college:	85%
Alumni working full-time or enrolled in college:	95%

Critical Decision-Making (crime & morality?*	Outcome
Alumni who are incarcerated:	0%
Alumni ever sentenced to jail:	2%
Alumni convicted of a crime:	3%
Alumni having a known addiction to drugs:	0%
Alumni having children before graduating from high school:	2%
Members who had a child before age 22	5%
Male alumni remaining with the mothers of their children, having primary custody or maintaining regular visitation patterns	100%
Alumni members known to have contracted HIV	0%

"This organization has changed my life for the better. I have become more responsible, reliable and gained more confidence. Of the many things I have gained through BHSS, the most important has been knowledge - the knowledge to understand that to succeed in life you must fight past the obstacles that may try to hold you back. If it were not for this program I might have fallen into traps and made mistakes I would have regretted for the rest of my life."

"I learned what you do is up to you. Life is up to you: what path you take, what road you walk, all of my personal demons I will now put behind me... I will not let fear, guilt or laziness or anything else hold me. I will do what I need to do for me, my family and all my brothers and sisters that are not blood. I will be mentally strong, physically strong, and spiritually strong. I will be a man."

"Being here has placed so many goals into perspective. The activities we've done have brought down a wall that I've been hiding behind... I can compare climbing a mountain to life because I set goals for myself and reaching my goals hasn't and will not be easy. But to succeed and reach my full potential I must believe in myself. And it helps a lot when I have significant individuals in my life who encourage me and refuse to allow me to ever give up or fail. Sister Sol has become a part of me and a part of me that is extremely positive and enlightening."

* Maintained through age 22

IMPACT

Statistics (as of July 2008) - Maintained thru age 22