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Lancaster's Bench Mark Program recognized with juvenile justice award

Bench Mark Program, a city-based mentoring program for at-risk youth, recently received the “Community-Based Program of the Year Award” from two juvenile justice organizations for its work within the ...
LancasterOnline

Weight lifting program gives teens outlet, chance to grow into 'something that they want to be'

Teenagers Prem Henriques and Kai Stewart offer the same blunt assessment of where they’d be if they weren’t involved in a strength-training and mentoring program for at-risk youth. Jail. Henriques, 18 ...
WGAL

Program in Lancaster combines boxing and mentoring

CHECKED OUT A PROGRAM IN LANCASTER THAT COMBINES SPORT WITH LIFE SKILLS. >> ON THE SURFACE BENCHMKAR LOOKS LIKE A GYM. A LOT OF KIDS WOULD CONSIDER US ARE -- THEIR COACHES AND TRAINERS, WHAT THEY DO ...
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Non-profit founder heads to D.C. to talk about his experience helping at-risk youth

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) – The Bench Mark Program on S. Prince St. in Lancaster has been helping at-risk youth for a decade, and its founder had the chance to go to Washington D.C. to talk about his ...