Statistics show that boys are at greater risk than girls for dropping out of school, for violence and juvenile arrest. The National Association of Street Schools is developing the High Risk, High Achievement Initiative, a 3 ½ year effort beginning in four Denver-area schools, to serve 125 at-risk minority boys. The initiative will guide the boys away from destructive activities and toward positive life change. It will supplement school-day activities with after-school, summer and mentorship programs provided by Denver area partner non-profit organizations; a cohesive new year-around effort to help students catch a vision for their future, develop a moral code and achieve academically. NASS member schools have a successful 20-year track record of delivering intervention programs that get at-risk boys off the streets, into the classroom and on their way to self-sufficiency. T he Street School Model has been recognized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the only faith-based model of six models deemed “replicable” in the Gates Alternative High Schools Initiative.This evening, Wendy Piersee, Vice-President of Development and Operations, and Denise Lechtenberger, Director of Development, met with the Institute’s students on the Georgetown campus. They discussed the components of the new initiative and solicited the students’ continuing counsel.