The future seemed hopeless for Kimberly Lattimore’s 11- and 12-year-old sons.
Whenever they weren’t in detention, they were suspended. They got kicked out of after-school sports, were too much for church groups to handle, and Lattimore was just about at wit’s end.
“I was constantly called to the school to try to come up with a plan for them,” she said. “It’s been really, really hard to try to work with my children.”
Then Lattimore brought the two to Joe Smith and the YMCA Community Action Project.
“About two or three weeks after, when I came to pick up my two little boys, one of them had acted out and I was told that Mr. Joe needed to see me. Well, I knew what was going to happen. That was it,” she said.