A lot of them don't come back. But the one's that come from a family where dad's in jail and the aunt's selling drugs, it's almost impossible to keep that child out of trouble. And the only option when he gets out is to put him back in that same environment. And parents who just want to shed all responsibility for their kids. Boys will be honest about not doing something.
Girls are very manipulative.
And they run more than boys. She counts stopping one girl from hitchhiking everywhere and seeing another girl put on a dress and stop painting her fingers black as some of her small successes. She's heading now to community college. I enjoy it. You have to go into this job knowing you're not going to save all of them.