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Helping boys become men
A local mentoring program for boys is celebrating the graduation of one its first members from college.
Miles Sullivan, 21, a former member of the Manhood Youth Development Foundation s Project Manhood 2015 program, graduated from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee in April with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business.
Sullivan, a Buchholz High School graduate who was in the finance program while a dual enrollment student at Santa Fe College, said his stepfather, Curtis Peterson, encouraged him to join Project Manhood.
“I encouraged Miles to join because it would expose him to a variety of activities that would assist him in his transition to becoming a man,” said Peterson, a treasurer of the Manhood Youth Development Foundation. “He would be around other young men dealing with the same issues and they would be able to share the experiences while growing together.”