GOALS SET AT MENTORS-FOR-KIDS MEETING.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Gov. Pete Wilson For others named Pete Wilson, see . Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that and business leaders held the first meeting Wednesday of the California Mentor Council, which set a goal of recruiting a quarter of a million father figures by 2000. Up to 70,000 Californians are acting as mentors to kids at risk, but there are an additional 78,000 children on waiting lists, Wilson noted in an executive order. It gives more money and authority to one of his favorite projects. ``I thought that there was no one who understood me, therefore there was no one who could help me,'' said Felton Booker, a high school junior from a single-parent home who got someone to talk to through the program. ``I can attest that mentoring can help fill this void,'' he told the meeting. ``California faces a crisis of juvenile crime, teen-age pregnancy, adolescent alcohol and drug use, and school failure brought about in large part by father absence,'' Wilson said in his announcement. The program draws support from corporations, particularly in the entertainment industry. Paramount Pictures agreed to expand its program and promote mentoring throughout the business. ``Government alone cannot watch over every single child,'' said Paramount chief A paramount chief is the highest-level traditional (usually tribal) chief or political leader in a regional or local polity or country typically administered politically with a chief-based system. Sherry Lansing Sherry Lansing (born July 31, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois as Sherry Lee Heimann) is the former CEO of Paramount Pictures and the first woman to head a major studio. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. . Fleishman-Hilliard will handle public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , and Charles Schwab Charles Schwab can refer to:
Wilson proposed $15 million for mentoring in the 1996-97 budget. The new order directs state departments to grant employees up to 40 hours a year paid time to mentor kids, as long as they match the hours with their own time. The order supersedes a $1.25 million pilot program mandated last year. |
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