We are failing our Young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey.

Hard to do of course.

Bekah McNeel writes on The 74 about a program in Austin, Texas schools to help troubled teenage boys.

After more than a year of remote learning, many more boys were talking about suicide and acting out, says Roxie Frederick, a counselor at the district’s Alternative Learning Center

She often connects boys with Project MALES (Mentoring to Achieve Latino Educational Success), a mentoring program primarily for Black and Latino young men, writes McNeel. There are groups at 13 campuses in Austin.

Mentors, who are University of Texas students, try to help boys talk about their emotions and “practice both asking for and offering support to each other.”