First Generation College Students Problem

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The community we chose was the youth population. Furthermore, we as a group felt that the youth are often the most affected by the problems in the world. So we decided to find and serve an agency that serves low-income families and first generation college students. The problem we decided to tackle was first generation college students. Getting ready to attend college is a very stressful stage in a young person’s life. However, for first-generation college students the situation is a little bit harder because they are the first person in their family going to college. We conducted a college workshop at the Boys & Girls on the Westside of Long Beach. The targeted level of intervention was planned to be at the micro, mezzo and macro level. Our

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