Detroit Escorts: Former hoops star bounces back with plan to help youth
December 25, 2009 at 10:49 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsHe spends his days trying to keep Detroit children off the streets. He co-founded the Motor City Youth Initiative, which meets Saturday afternoons at the Faith Lutheran church annex. During peak weekends, 80-100 at-risk inner-city children learn about substance-abuse prevention, computers and basketball.
“I’m teaching them something I missed,” Wagner said. “You got to be prepared, man, because you never know when opportunity will be there. I was not prepared.”
The meetings are like doses of preventive medicine.
“We got a lot of young people who get caught up and don’t even know,” said Charles White, director of the MCYI.
‘The Dribbler’
Wagner was not prepared for the fast life that engulfed him. As a youth, he hung around an east-side pool hall on Hastings Street owned by his father, Ennis.
When he was 12, Wagner walked past hustlers and prostitutes. But he didn’t understand what they were because he was “a square,” he says, and perhaps a bit naïve.
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