The group is made up of 12 students who agree to intense mentoring from seventh grade through high school with the belief that it can change their lives.
Shaun shows us the success a former 2011 Turner 12 student has achieved and how she is helping others all because Coach John Carter, who started the Turner 12 Foundation, believed in her.
"Although I was able to get to where I am today, I wasn’t able to do that without the help of others, especially the Turner 12 and Coach Carter," Jacquez-Ceja said. "At 12 years old, my dad got deported. And from then on, I didn’t have my parents," she said. "It was a family separation from 12 years on up. I just lived from home to home and wherever I could." Then in 2017, while part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or DACA, Hernandez was in a terrible car crash that left her with a traumatic brain injury.She came back from that and her friend, Jacquez-Ceja, kept her word.
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