At age 15 and concerned in gang life, Jason Silvestre discovered himself locked up for 2 years on the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center on Chicago’s West Side. “At first it was terrible. I was an angry person,” stated Silvestre, now 20, of Logan Square. “I started seeing all these different programs they had, and after a year, I said, ‘You know what? I’m in here. I might as well take advantage and do something productive with my time instead of just sitting around looking mad all day,’ ” he stated.