It Starts With A U-Turn promotes a positive academic attitude and provide an atmosphere conducive to learning and growth, while providing resources to develop life skills by emphasizing the importance of higher education and mental well-being. Our focus is not to only increase the high school graduation rate, but to maintain an effective line of communication with graduates who are pursuing secondary education to successfully guide them through college and post-grad. It Starts With A U-Turn works with a series of community centers in the lower socioeconomic demographic community.

Being an intricate part of all the middle and high schools within the community help individual become more socially inclined to comprehend the importance of higher education