West Side Helping Hand, a non-profit which serves Corpus Christi students through education, and mentoring in life skills reassured its supporters:
* The incident did not involve a West Side Helping Hand youth participant and did not occur during West Side Helping Hand hours.
* West Side Helping Hand safety policies do not allow secluded one and one adult/child interaction; all mentoring is done in a group setting.
* West Side Helping Hand took swift action to dismiss the subject of the investigation.
* West Side Helping Hand retains 100% of its youth participants and West Side Helping Hand remains grateful for the continued support of our Youth Mentoring program.