They've partnered with the Navy to launch an apprenticeship program at the Washington Navy Yard and Joe's also helping other cities start their programs as well. Despite the achievements of the ASF boat-building program, Joe knows the only permanent solutions that can help troubled kids grow into responsible citizens will come not from institutions, but from citizens themselves. Focusing on early intervention programs is great, but that's the next generation. We have to figure out what are we gonna do with kids that are now twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-one, because they're gonna be with us. Get rid of them and then start over.
Bureaucracies develop systems that try and work for the greater good for the most people.
We're working with kids that don't fit in those systems. So the solutions that the systems have designed don't work for them. You really have to develop individual solutions for each one of these kids.