Overcoming Obstacles: CIS Success Stories October 2011
October 27, 2011
Eighth grader Paige Lowery has come along way since the 6th grade, when she missed almost 40 days of school, was written up for “having a mouth,” was suspended for hitting a teacher with a ball of paper and stole a pair of jeans that almost sent her to jail. CIS Success Coach Brian Walker has helped Paige through CIS of Brunswick County’s Peer Court Program, an alternative juvenile justice program where young people who commit crimes at school are tried by a group of their peers and sentenced to community service instead of going to real court, perhaps landing themselves in jail and certainly having a record until they are 18. Watch our October "Overcoming Obstacles" video below and check out the wonderful story of how, with the help of CIS, the course of Paige Lowery's life has been redirected. “We all make mistakes," says Brian Walker, "but what you do when you make a mistake is what’s important.”
Visit CISNC's blog for reflections on documenting Paige and Brian by multimedia producer Justin Cook.
