Save Your Own Life: Choosing the Right Path Is Not Always Clear
- ISBN-10
- 0615965393
- ISBN-13
- 9780615965390
- Pages
- 82
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-05-05
- Publisher
- At Risk Interventions
- Author
- Abdullah Rahim
Description
In this insightful and courageous body of work, the author demonstrates with integrity, conviction and rare insight how a youth's childhood conditioning and environmental influences define society's future and determine a child's fate.Rahim is a community and academically educated intervention outreach advocate. In the past decade he has spoken to over 1,000 high school students, including at-risk teens, college students, grand juries, and legislators. He was a facilitator of educational and rehabilitative programs at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. He served 26 years of a life plus 20 sentence at the Tennessee Department of Correction, receiving parole in 2015.
