​Many multicultural youth in the state of Kansas are growing up in communities where potent risk factors and anemic protective factors significantly reduce their life chances and propel them toward antisocial behavior and disproportionate contact with the juvenile justice system.  In our work with nearly 4,000 multicultural students through Project IMPACT pipeline programs in the Office of Diversity at Kansas State University, we have seen the effectiveness of using a leadership development approach and repeated exposure to the endless possibilities of a college education in steering young people away from the iatrogenic factors and juvenile delinquency in their neighborhoods towards greater self-efficacy and outstanding accomplishments in the halls of academe

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