Mike Ball: Yeah, yeah, they're just on a different path. I was a high school hockey coach, and I've spent a lot of time around kids my whole life, but never, never had encountered kids that were, you know, when I saw them, I had realized, "My God, that's my kid. I'm a dad and I was a youth hockey coach. And when I saw the kids, I had never really been in contact with kids like that before. And I was asked to go out to a maximum security lockup for teenage boys called Maxi Boys Training School for Career Day to talk about what it was like to write sophomore jokes for a living. I used to have a syndicated column, which I've retired from since I write books and things like that. Jeremy Baldwin: And how did you get into doing this? What prompted this inspiration? Just all sorts of kids who who just really are struggling to put their lives together, and we're able to really help them with that. 12 to 18 years old, or we work with human trafficking victims, kids. They're in residential placement, which means that, for one reason or another, is some of them. We're working with kids who are extremely traumatized. And it's a pretty amazing transition that they go through. At the end of the experience, we put them on stage with us to sing their songs. Mike Ball: And then they write song lyrics that we turn into music. We create a space where they can dig into the deepest, darkest recesses of their heart. We basically-we're folk and blues musicians who work with kids to express themselves in song. Yeah, we've been around for about 15 years. And thank you so much for having me on today. For people who aren't familiar with Lost Voices, could you maybe give us a little background on the organization and how it started and what it is that you all do? And so, Mike is joining us today to tell us a little bit about Lost Voices and their upcoming events that are part of the Ann Arbor Marathon coming up very soon. Jeremy Baldwin: I am joined here on the phone by Mike Ball, who is the founder of an organization called Lost Voices, and they have been helping young people who have been in various tough situations, helping them find hope and creativity and healing through music-a really interesting, uplifting organization that I've been lucky enough to see at work once. WEMU's Jeremy Baldwin speaks to Lost Voices founder Mike Ball about the history of the group and their involvement in this weekend's Ann Arbor Marathon. Lost Voices is an organization that helps kids, who are victims of trauma, find hope and healing through the power of music.
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