This profile incorporates recent data from a variety of state sources to yield a sober and complex picture of the lives of the exuberant and promising young people. The profile is not intended to present readers with an unsolvable problem, but to document the seriousness of the challenges facing these young people, to demonstrate that there are areas of family, community and school life that can be altered in order to create a more comfortable place in and from which to grow, and to encourage each of us –one on one—to invest our personal, professional and political resources in the students between the lines.