Today it provides services to over 4,000 individuals, encompassing both at-risk children and their families.

"That is fairly significant because they were all at-risk children," she said.

Educational day care is the state's opportunity to prepare at-risk children to succeed in school.

She runs a small manufacturing business and is director of a group that helps at-risk children.

"We are prepared, however, to ask the court to intervene in the lives of at-risk children," he said.

It is dedicated to the care, treatment, and education of at-risk children.

The seven agencies will create the jobs, a mix of work in day camps, summer schools and programs for at-risk children.

In addition, states may opt to define and serve at-risk children.

Schools also try to work with parents to help them learn ways to help their at-risk child.

He has also worked as a high school teacher, focusing on "at-risk" children.