>>> COMING UP, HOW RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE RESPONDING TO DONALD TRUMP'S OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AND ALLEGED BEHAVIOR.

DAVID GIBSON SURVEYS THEY'RE REACTION.

ALSO, DAN LOTHIAN TALKS WITH A FORMER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENT, A MORMON, WHO QUIT HIS JOB TO SPEND FULL-TIME TRYING TO RESCUE CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF CRIMINAL TRAFFICKING.

AND THE OLD SCHOOL CAFE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

LUCKY SEVERSON REPORTS THAT IT'S NOT ONLY A GOOD PLACE TO EAT, BUT A SCHOOL HELPING FORMER PRISONERS STAY OFF THE STREET.

>>> WELCOME.

I'M BOB ABERNETHY.

IT'S GO TO YOU HAVE WITH US.

AID IS STARTING TO MAKE ITS WAY INTO HAITI AFTER THE RECENT DEVASTATING HURRICANE.

THOUSANDS DISPLACED BY THE STORM AND AN ESTIMATED 1,000 HAVE DIED.

HEALTH CARE WORKERS ARE INCREASINGLY CONCERNED THAT A LACK OF WATER AND SANITATION COULD LEAD TO A SPIKE IN CASES OF CHOLERA.

10,000 IN THE COUNTRY HAVE DIED FROM THE DISEASE SINCE 2010.

FAITH-BASED AID ORGANIZATIONS ARE AMONG THOSE TRYING TO HEM.

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COMMITTED $5 MILLION TO HELP THOSE IN HAITI AND OTHER CARIBBEAN NATIONS RECOVER.

UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATES 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE.

HURRICANE MATTHEW ALSO KILLED MORE THAN TWO DOZEN HERE IN THE U.S.

IN NORTH CAROLINA, THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN FORCED FROM THEIR HOMES AND THERE ARE FEARS THAT CONTINUED FLOODING IN THE REGION WILL MAKE RECOVERING FROM THE STORM ALL THE MORE DIFFICULT.

THIS WEEK, MORE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE DONALD TRUMP.

SEVERAL WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD TO SAY THEY WERE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY THE GOP NOMINEE.

THE NEWS COMES AFTER THE RELEASE OF A VIDEO ON WHICH TRUMP BOASTED ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT.

IN THE RECORDING, HE'S HEARD SAYING HE KISSED AND GROPED WOMEN WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION, AND THAT HE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT, BECAUSE HE WAS "A STAR."

THE REVELATIONS LED SOME CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO BACK AWAY FROM THEIR SUPPORT OF THE CANDIDATE.

CHRISTIANITY TODAY, A PROMINENT EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE, PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL NOTING THAT "EVANGELICALS ARE ALL PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SILENT ABOUT DONALD TRUMP'S BLATANT IMMORALITY."

OTHER PROMINENT EVANGELICAL LEADERS, HOWEVER, HAVE CONTINUED TO SUPPORT THE NOMINEE.

THEY INCLUDE FOCUS ON THE FAMILY FOUNDER JAMES DOBSON, AND LIBERTY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT JERRY FALWELL JR. TRUMP'S RUNNING MATE, MIKE PENCE, URGED FORGIVENESS FOR WHAT TRUMP SAID.

>> IT'S NOT ABOUT CONDONING WHAT IS SAID AND DONE.

IT'S ABOUT BELIEVING IN GRACE AND FORGIVENESS.

AS CHRISTIANS WE ARE CALLED TO FORGIVE, EVEN AS WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN.

>> TRUMP IS ALSO HURTING AMONG OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS.

MORMON SUPPORT FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE HAN SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKENED.

POLLS SHOW TRUMP AND HILLARY CLINTON IN A VIRTUAL TIE IN UTAH.

AND WITH REGARD TO MUSLIMS, A NEW NATION-WIDE SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE COUNCIL OF AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS FOUND THAT 72% OF MUSLIMS INTEND TO VOTE FOR CLINTON.

ONLY 4% SAID THEY WOULD VOTE FOR TRUMP.

BUT A POLL RELEASED EARLIER THIS WEEK SHOWED 65% OF WHITE EVANGELICAL PROTESTANTS STILL PLAN TO VOTE FOR THE GOP CANDIDATE.

WE WANT TO LOOK NOW AT THE REACTION TO SOME OF WHAT DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN SAYING.

DAVID GIBSON IS A NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT FOR RELIGION NEWS SERVICE.

HE JOINS US TODAY FROM NEW YORK.

DAVID, WELCOME.

>> GOOD TO BE HERE, BOB.

>> WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE RELIGIOUS REACTION TO SOME OF WHAT'S DIDN'T SAID?

WHAT'S BEEN SAID?

>> THE KEY RESPONSE TO LOOK AT ARE WHITE EVANGELICALS.

SUCH A CRITICAL BLOCK FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

AND YOU KNOW, BOB, IT SEEMS EVERY ELECTION CYCLE WE ARE, COME TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT IS THIS FINALLY THE DEATH OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT?

WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT EP THANG EPITHET COULD BE WRITTEN WITH THE LATEST VIDEO, ONGOING ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENTS AND ASSAULT COMING OUT, THE WAY THE CANDIDATE IS RESPONDING REALLY HAVE DIVIDED EVANGELICAL LEADERS IN A WAY THEY HADN'T EVEN BEEN BEFORE.

A LOT OF THEM ARE DOUBLING DOWN, THAT OLD GUARD RELIGIOUS RIGHT DOUBLING DOWN ON SUPPORT OF TRUMP.

NEVER TRUMP EVANGELICALS SAYING THIS IS THE LAST STRAW.

THERE'S NO WAY ANY GOOD EVANGELICAL CAN SUPPORT THIS GUY.

THE KEY IS THAT YOU'RE SEEING SOME OF THIS SHOWS UP IN THE POLLS FOR WHITE EVANGELICAL VOTERS.

THEY'RE ONLY SUPPORTING HIM ABOUT 65%, NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TO GET DONALD TRUMP INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.

>> AND, DAVID, WHAT ABOUT CATHOLICS?

WHAT'S GOING ON THERE?

>> WELL, CATHOLICS HAVE REALLY BEEN, ESPECIALLY WHITE CATHOLICS.

LATINO CATHOLICS, REALLY THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH, STRONGLY DEMOCRATIC, BECAUSE OF OBVIOUSLY THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC ON THE GOP AND THE PRO-IMMIGRATION REFORM RHETORIC FOR THE DEMOCRATS, THE WHITE CATHOLICS ARE RIDING A ROLLER COASTER.

UP AND DOWNEN IN SUPPORT OR LACK OF SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP.

>> AND THE BISHOPS, HAVE THE BISHOPS COME OUT IN ANY WAY ON THIS?

>> NOT REALLY, NO.

THEY'VE BEEN FAIRLY SILENT ON THIS.

THEIR KEY ISSUE, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ABORTION.

SO THEY'VE REALLY BEEN DECRYING THE -- SOME OF THEM SPEAKING OUT, HAVE BEEN GENERALLY SILENT.

SOME PEEKSPEAKING OUT REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS' PRO-CHOICE PLATFORM WHICH THEY DISLIKE, OBVIOUSLY.

>> AND YOU ALSO TALKED TO, I THINK, ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE FAR WEST, IN UTAH, FOR INSTANCE.

A STATE IN PLAY THAT WAS NOT EXPECTED THAT WAY.

>> YEAH.

A COMPLETE RED STATE.

ROCK RED REPUBLICAN MORMONS THERE ARE GETTING TURNED OFF BY THIS TRUMP RHETORIC AND BY HIS HIS -- HIS ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC.

HIS TALK ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND CURTAILING IT FOR EARN GROUPCERTAIN GROUPS HAS CUT INTO HIS SUPPORT FOR MORMONS.

VIRTUALLY TIED IN UTAH.

THIS COULD BE KEY IN PLACES, IF THE ELECTION TIGHTENS TOWARDS THE END IN PLACES LIKE UTAH AND ARIZONA.

THAT USED TO BE A LOCK FOR THE REPUBLICANS.

>> UH-HUH.

MANY THANKS TO DAVID GIBSON OF RELIGION NEWS SERVICE.

>>> MUSICIANS AND FAITH LEADERS GATHERED IN WASHINGTON LAST WEEK FOR AN INTERFAITH FESTIVAL DUBBED "CHANT FOR CHANGE."

THE TEN-HOUR LONG FESTIVAL WAS MEANT TO SHARE MESSAGES'S INCLUSION AND GOODWILL IN A TIME OF POLITICAL TENSION.

>> I'LL TELL YOU, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION.

IT'S GOING TO BE US THAT FIGURE STUFF OUT, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.

AND IF WE ALLOW THESE THINGS TO DIVIDE US, WE ARE IN TROUBLE.

>> POPE FRANCIS WELCOMED TO THE VATICAN 1,000 LUTHERANS FROM GERMANY ON AN ECUMENICAL PILGRIMAGE AND URGED THEM TO SET ASIDE DOCTRINEAL DIFFERENCES, ASKING THEM TO PRAY FOR THE POOR, SICK AND REFUGEES.

FRANCIS PLANS TO PARTICIPATE IN AN ECUMENICAL SERVICE IN SWEDEN LATER THIS MONTH WITH THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION.

THE POPE WILL HELP COMMEMORATE THE 500th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION.

LAST WEEK, FRANCIS NAMED 17 NEW CARDINALS, INCLUDING 13 WHO ARE UNDER 80 YEARS OLD, AND, THEREFORE, ELIGIBLE TO CHOOSE HIS SUCCESSOR.

AMONG THOSE SELECTED WERE THREE FROM THE U.S. ARCHBISHOP BLAZE SOUPAGE OF CHICAGO, ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM TOBIN OF INDIANAPOLIS AND BISHOP KEVIN JOSEPH FARRELL.

EXPERTS SAY THOSE CHOSEN HAVE VIEWS THAT ALIGN WITH THE POPE'S VISION FOR A MORE MODERATE CHURCH.

THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS NEGOTIATED THE RELEASE OF 21 GIRLS KIDNAPPED BY THE ISLAMIST MILITANT GROUP BOKO HARAM.

THEY WERE AMONG THE NEARLY 300 GIRLS KIDNAPPED FROM A SCHOOL IN NORTHERN EASTERN NIGERIA TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO.

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID NEGOTIATIONS WOULD CONTINUE IN THE HOPE OF RESCUING EVEN MORE GIRLS.

>>> WE HAVE A STORE FROM DAN LOTHIAN ABOUT AN AMERICAN MORMON WHO USED TO BE A GOVERNMENT AGENT, BUT WHO QUIT HIS JO BE TO FOUND "OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD."

TIM VALERED AND HIS TEAM ARE WORKING AROUND THE WORLD TO TRY TO RESCUE THE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCED INTO A KIND OF SLAVERY.

WORKING FOR LITTLE MONEY AND IN FACTORIES FARMS AND BROTHELS, HE COUNTS ON A HIGHER POWER TO KEEP HIM SAFE.

>> Reporter: UNDER COVER'S DARKNESS, COLOMBIAN FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS APPROACH THEIR TARGET.

WEAPONS DRAWN.

THERE'S STRONG EVIDENCE SOMETHING ILLEGAL IS TAKING PLACE INSIDE.

IT'S A SUSPECTED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING.

THEY STORM THE ROOM AND ORDER THE SUSPECTS TO HIT THE GROUND.

EVERYTHING SEEMS IN PLACE, BUT THIS MAN IN THE CORNER STANDS OUT.

HE'S AN AMERICAN.

SEEMINGLY RATTLED THAT THEY'VE ALL BEEN CAUGHT.

HE WANTS TO FIND THE SNITCH.

>> WHICH ONE OF YOU GUYS -- HUH?

MARKO?

>> NO, SIR.

>> Reporter: ACTUALLY, THIS IS TIM BALLARD.

NOT THE AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN TRYING TO BUY CHILDREN FOR SEX PARTIES, AS THESE COLOMBIANS BELIEVE BUT FOUNDER OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT PARTNERS WITH AUTHORITIES TO RESCUE KIDS FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKERS AROUND THE WORLD.

>> ARE WE GOING TO ARREST HIM, WE GET MOCK ARRESTED.

YELLING AT TRAFFICKERS.

WHO CALLED THE COPS, TO KEEP OUR COVER.

>> Reporter: UNDERCOVER CAMERAS CAPTURE THE ENTIRE STING OPERATION AS MONEY IS EXCHANGED AND COUNTED.

>> THESE TRAFFICKERS, OF COURSE, THEY SELL MOSTLY TO LOCAL CLIENTS, BUT IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN OR WESTERNER COME INTO TOWN, THEY FLOCK TO YOU AND YOUR ABILITY TO RESCUE MORE KIDS AND BRING NOR TRAFFICKERS INTO THE TRAP.

IT'S GREATER.

>> Reporter: THAT'S THE POINT OF "OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD."

BALLARD'S NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FORMED IN 2013.

THE FATHER OF SIX IS FOLLOWING HIS PASSION AND HIS FAITH.

>> WE KNOW WHAT A CHILDHOOD IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

WHAT INNOCENCE IS.

AND IF THERE REALLY ARE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN THAT DON'T HAVE THAT AND THAT ARE BEING ABUSED IN THE WORST WAY, HOW CAN YOU FACE YOUR MAKER AND SAY, AND SAY, NO, I DID NOTHING?

>> Reporter: FOR A DOZEN YEARS BALLARD WORK WOULDED AS A SPECIAL AGENT AND UNDERCOVER OPERATOR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

HIS INVESTIGATIONS CENTERED MOSTLY ON CHILD TRAFFICKING CRIMES.

THERE WAS ACTION, GOOD BENEFITS AND JOB SECURITY.

AS PART OF HIS GOVERNMENT JOB, BALLARD WAS HAVING SUCCESS TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD.

SOMETIMES TO REMOTE AREAS, TO RESCUE YOUNG CHILDREN FROM TRAFFICKERS.

BUT HE SOON REALIZED THAT THERE WERE LIMITATIONS.

SUCH AS BUDGET CONCERNS, JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES OR OTHER LEGAL HURDLES THAT NEEDED TO BE CLEARED IN ORDER FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO GET INVOLVED.

HE CREDIT IS HIS WIFE AND HER STRONG FAITH WITH NUDGING HIM IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

>> SHE SAID, NOW, THINK OF IT IN TERMS OF THE CALLING THAT WE FEEL WE'VE RECEIVED.

GOD WANTS US TO DO, SHE SAID, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO QUIT YOUR JOB.

YOU QUIT YOUR JOB, YOU CAN STILL TAKE THE TOOLS.

IMAGINE YOU CAN GO TO THE PLACES THAT DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES BUT DO HAVE THE KIDS THAT NEED HELP?

>> Reporter: BALLARD, DEVOUT MORMON QUIT HIS GOVERNMENT JOB AND WITH ENOUGH SAVINGS TO LAST ABOUT SIX MONTHS, HE CONVINCED A TEAM MADE UP OF FORMER NAVY S.E.A.L.S, CIA OPERATIVES AND OTHERS OF ALL FAITHS TO JOIN HIM.

>> IT REQUIRES FAITH.

IT REQUIRES JUST THE -- THE CONFIDENCE THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS THERE NAP THERE'S A POWER GREATER THAN MY TEAM THAT IS GOING TO PROTECT AND WARN AND ADVISE AND KEEP US CALM.

>> Reporter: AFTER ALL, IT'S GRITTY, DANGEROUS AND OFTEN DISTURBING WORK PRETENDING TO BE INTERESTED IN PAYING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN WHILE SURROUNDED BY CRIMINALS WITH GUN, BUT IT'S A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES.

HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AND OTHER EXPERTS IN THIS AREA ESTIMATE THAT THERE ARE BETWEEN 22 AND 46 MILLION LABOR OR SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IN THE WORLD.

THAT WIDESPREAD HAS TO DO WITH THE DIFFICULTY IN COUNTING THIS HIDDEN POPULATION.

ABOUT 2 MILLION OF THAT NUMBER ARE BELIEVED TO BE CHILDREN.

DARTH KARA IS THE AUTHOR OF "SEX TRAFFICKING: INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF MODERN SLAVERY."

HE ALSO RUNS THE PROGRAM ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AT THE HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL AND TEACHES PERHAPS THE ONLY COURSE ON THE SUBJECT.

>> THERE'S NO MORE PAINFUL ENCOUNTER I'VE HAD THAN DOCUMENTING CHILD SLAVES.

WHETHER THEY ARE WORKING AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE OR IN A MINE, OR IN FORCED PROSTITUTION.

TO SEE A CHILD 10, 9, 11 YEARS OLD BEING BRUTALIZED FOR GREED AND PROFIT, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO FATHOM THAT THIS TAKES PLACE IN THE MODERN WORLD.

>> Reporter: RACK CRACKING DOWN IS DIFFICULT.

IN MANY COUNTRIES LAWS ARE WEEK OR AREN'T ENFORCED AND THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY INVOLVED.

SO MONEY IS THE BIG DRIVINGER HERE?

>> I HAVEVHAVE TRAVELLED THE WORLD 16 YEARS DOCUMENTING THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF SLASHS ANDIE SOF SLASHS ANDIE S THOUSANDS OF SLASHS ANDIE SLAVES AND RARELY FOUND FOR JUST CRUELTY PURPOSES.

ALMOST ALWAYS ABOUT PROFIT, GENERATING PROFIT.

>> Reporter: IT'S ESTIMATED THIS CRIMINAL INDUSTRY GENERATES PROFITS THAT EXCEED $150 BILLION PER YEAR.

BALLARD IS UNDETERRED.

HE SAYS HIS ORGANIZATION HAS WORKED IN 18 COUNTRIES, RESCUED CLOSE TO 600 VICTIMS, AND HAS ASSISTED IN THE ARRESTS OF NEARLY 300 TRAFFICKERS.

ALL OF THIS VIDEO NOT ONLY PROVIDES GOOD EVIDENCE, BUT IS PART OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "THE ABOLITIONIST" FROM THE PRODUCER OF "SCHINDLER'S LIST" AND "JURASSIC PARK."

>> HERE'S THE THINGS.

DOES SHE DO EVERYTHING?

>> WANTS MORE MONEY, GOING TO ASK.

>> NO PROBLEM.

>> YEAH.

>> YOU'RE THE MAN.

>> TRAVEL ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TO ENGAGE IN SEX WITH CHILDREN.

>> Reporter: AND WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THE YOUNG CHILDREN ONCE THEY ARE RESCUED FROM THIS DARK UNDERWORLD?

>> YOU CAN'T JUST HAVE A, KIND OF A, A HALFWAY OPTION ON THIS.

YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A SHELTER, A CENTER, THAT CAN RAISE A CHILD.

BECAUSE SO MANY OF THESE KIDS, THEY CAN'T GO HOME, BECAUSE THEY'RE -- THEIR PARENTS, HARD AS IT IS TO BELIEVE, THEIR PARENTS ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

THEY'RE SELLING THEIR OWN KIDS, OR ON THE TAKE OR TURNING A BLIND EYE AND WE WORK WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO MAKE SURE, IS THIS A SAFE PLACE?

CAN THEY GO BACK HERE?

IF NOT, WE HAVE A HOME.

>> Reporter: WHETHER THE MOVIE, BOOKS SPEECHES OR ONLINE TOOLS TO HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT, BALLARD IS, WOULD GO TO RAISE AWARENESS.

HE STEPPED BACK FROM UNDERCOVER WORK BECAUSE OF HIS HIGH VISIBILITY, BUT HASN'T SLOWED DOWN.

>> LOOKING BACK I CAN'T WHACHIMAGINE WHAT I WAS THINKING.

THE GUTS TO DO THIS NOT KNOWING IT HAS BECOME THIS, BUT IT HAS BECOME THIS AND I ABSOLUTELY DLABT TO MY FAITH AND TO THE FAITH OF MY TEAM.

THAT WE BELIEVE THAT IF WE JUST TOOK THAT STEP, THAT A HIGHER POWER WOULD COME IN AND TAKE CARE OF THE REST.

>> Reporter: FOR RELIGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, I'M DAN LOTHIAN IN BOSTON.

>>> NOW A LUCKY SEVERSON REPORT ON A RESTAURANT IN SAN FRANCISCO THAT'S NOT ONLY A GOOD PLACE TO EAT, BUT A SCHOOL TEACHING FORMER PRISON INMATES ESPECIALLY YOUNG ONES THE SKILLS THEY NEED TO STAY OFF THE STREET.

>> Reporter: OF ALL THE FINE RESTAURANTS IN SAN FRANCISCO, AND THERE ARE MANY, THIS ONE STANDS OUT.

IT'S A SUPPER CLUB CALLED OLD SCHOOL CAFE.

>> IT'S AMAZING.

IT'S FANTASTIC FOOD.

>> Reporter: IT'S NOT JUST GOOD FOOD THAT DRAWS PEOPLE LIKE PASTOR TIM RITTER.

IT'S THE STAFF.

ON AVERAGE, THREE OUT OF FOUR OF THE KIDS WHO ARE THE WAITERS AND KITCHEN HELP HAVE BEEN LOCKED UP OR IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW.

THREE OUT OF FOUR.

INSTEAD OF SERVING TIME, NOW THEY'RE SERVING FOOD.

>> I THINK IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO PASTOR PEOPLE, PERSONALLY.

>> Reporter: FRANCIS RUBIO, ONE-TIME PASTOR NOW EXECUTIVE CHEF AT OLD SCHOOL.

>> I THINK IT'S A LITTLE SCARY FOR SOME OF THEM TO WAKE UP AND FACE THE DAY.

I THINK THAT IT'S A LITTLE BIT SCARY FOR THEM TO SOMETIMES WALK THROUGH OUR DOORS, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO INTERACT WITH PEOPLE, AND THAT FOR SOME OF THEM, THAT IS DEATHLY SCARE.

>> AND YOU LEAVE THE SKIN ON?

TAKE THE SKIN OFF?

>> Reporter: THERE WOULD BE NO OLD SCHOOL IF NOT FOR THERESA GOYENS, FORMER CORRECTIONS OFFICER FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

>> YOUNG PEOPLE INCARCERATED I WORKED WITH ARE THE ONES GOD USED TO BREAK MY HEART OPEN AND SAY THIS IS YOUR CALLING.

>> SHE'S AMAZING.

>> Reporter: SUSAN BROWN WITH THE BROWN INSTITUTE ON POLITICS AND PUBLIC SERVICE NAMED AFTER HER FATHER WILLIE BROWN, THE FORMER MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO.

>> ANYONE WHO CAN COME FROM THE JUVENILE SYSTEM AS A GUARD AND SEE THAT THAT'S NOT WORKING AND THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE, CREATE SOMETHING THAT DOES WORK IS AMAZING.

>> Reporter: THERESA GOYINGS WORK AS A GUARD CHANGED HER LIFE IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY.

WHAT BROKE HER HEART, THE YOUNG FOLKS SHE WORKED WITH, WHICH SHE PROMISED IMPROVEMENT WHILE INCARCERATED.

RELEASED BACK TO THEIR OLD ENVIRONMENT WENT BACK TO THEIR OLD WAYS.

>> EVERY NIGHT I WOULD OFTEN COME HOME FROM WORK IN TEARS PRAYING, GOD, PLEASE GIVE ME A SOLUTION.

THIS IS HORRIBLE.

I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT NOW THAT I KNOW HOW MANY KIDS FEEL LIKE THEIR LIFE IS MEANINGLESS AND THAT THEY DON'T EXPECT TO LIVE TO SEE THEIR 18th BIRTHDAY, I KIN WALK AWAY AND NOT DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

SO I KEPT PRAYING, PLEASE, GIVE ME A SOLUTION.

>> Reporter: SO WITH LOTS OF PRAYERS AND UNREALISTIC HOPE, THIS NON-DENOMINATIONAL, DEVOUT CHRISTIAN QUIT HER JOB, INVESTED A SMALL INHERITANCE IN SAVINGS IN A TINY RESTAURANT IN HER HOME AND EMPLOYED AT-RISK KIDS.

MANY WITH BACKGROUNDS LIKE ELIJAH MARTINEZ.

>> I CAN'T -- I CAN'T REMEMBER ANY MEMORIES OF MY DAD.

OR MY MOM, ACTUALLY.

I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMA.

THE ONE WHO TOOK CARE OF ME EVER SINCE I WAS BORN.

>> Reporter: BUT IF OLD SCHOOL CAFE WAS TO STAY AFLOAT OR GROW SHE NEEDED DEEP POCKETS.

SO SHE SET OUT FUND-RAISING.

>> I'M, I HAVE NO BUSINESS BACKGROUND.

NO RESTAURANT BACKGROUND OTHER THAN HAVING BEEN A WAITRESS FOUR MONTHS WHEN I WAS 19, AND ON TOP OF IT, NINE OF TEN RESTAURANTS FAIL AND NEVER WORKED BEFORE COMING OUT OF JAIL, MAYBE ANGER ISSUES.

I WAS TOLD, YOU KNOW, BY PEOPLE I HAD ASKED FOR FUNDING IT WAS THE WORST IDEA THEY HAD EVER HEARD.

>> Reporter: BUT SHE KEPT AT IT AND WHN SHE THOUGHT NO HOPE, FOUND ONE INVESTORS, ANOTHER, SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS AND NOW THE NONPROFIT OLD SCHOOL CAFE HAS ITS OWN BUILDING, ALBEIT IN ONE OF THE TOUGHEST NEIGHBORHOODS IN SAN FRANCISCO.

>> THAT IS WHAT I LOVE THE MOST ABOUT OLD SCHOOL CAFE.

IT ALLOWS SOMEONE TO PULL THEMSELVES UP BY THEIR OWN BOOTSTRAPS.

AND DO IT THEMSELVES.

AND SUCCEED.

>> Reporter: MANY OF THE KIDS ATTEND HIGH SCHOOL WHEN NOT AT OLD SCHOOL.

SOME HAVE OTHER PART-TIME JOBS.

HERE THEY LEARN THE INS AND OUTS OF THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS.

THIS IS JAY.

>> YEAH.

BACK OF THE HOUSE, HOW TO COOK, HOW TO PREP, HOW TO SERVE, AND WE'VE LEARNED A LOT.

I THINK WE ALL APPRECIATE IT A LOT.

>> Reporter: NOBODY JUST DROPS IN TO THE OLD SCHOOL CAFE.

IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD.

IT'S A TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD.

PEOPLE ONLY COME HERE WITH RESERVATIONS.

INSIDE, IT'S ANOTHER WORLD, A 1940s SUPPER CLUB REACHING BACK TO HAPPIER TIMES.

>> HELP US HAVE A GOOD SERVICE TONIGHT AND THANKFUL WE CAN BE THANKFUL FOR THINGS.

AMEN.

>> All: AMEN.

>> Reporter: IT'S NOT EASY FOR THE KIDS, AGES 16 TO 22, TO GET ACCEPTED HERE.

MANY ARE REFERRED BY PROBATION OFFICERS AND OTHER JUVENILE AGENCIES.

AFTER THEIR ACCEPTED, MOST STAY IN THE PROGRAM FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS.

SOME LONGER.

THEY CAN EXPECT MONTHS OF TRAINING, ABOUT HOW TO GET A JOB AND KEEP IT, AND THEN AT LEAST AN HOUR A DAY OF DISCUSSIONS FROM A LIFE COACH.

>> I'M FLEXIBLE.

>> CHANGE COMES TO ME EASILY AND EFFORTLESSLY.

>> Reporter: THE RULES EVEN AFTER ACCEPTED, STRICT.

MORE THAN ONE ABSENCE CAN MEAN THEY'RE KICKED OUT OF THE PROGRAM.

>> YES.

I'M STRICT BECAUSE THE WORLD ISN'T YOU KNOW -- THEY'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT IF WE DON'T HAVE A HIGH BAR FOR THEM AND TEACH THEM HOW TO PUSH THEMSELVES AND REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.

>> Reporter: JEREMIAH RUSHING IS ONE OF OLD SCHOOL'S GRADUATES.

>> YOU SPENT SOME TIME IN JAIL.

RIGHT?

>> YEAH.

STARTED WHEN I WAS 14.

>> Reporter: HE WAS INTO DRUG, ALCOHOL, GREW UP IN FOSTER CARE.

>> WHEN YOU LOOK TO THE FUTURE WHAT DID YOU SEE?

>> PRISON.

BECAUSE MAJORITY OF MY FRIENDS WERE DOING IT OR GETTING TO THE, TO JAIL AND SO I WAS LIKE, THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.

THERE IS NO WAY OUT.

>> Reporter: NOW HE'S ATTENDING KLEMP AND MENTORING KIDS IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL.

IF THE PROOP PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, OLD SCHOOL CAFE IN BUSINESS FOUR YEARS ACCOMPLISHED WHAT THERESA HOPED IT WOULD.

>> SO THE NATIONAL AVERAGE IS 76% OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RELEASED FROM JAIL OR PRISON WILL RETURN OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND IN THEIR LIFETIME, AND OURS IS, COMPARED TO HOURS IT'S 10% OF YOUTH THAT COMPLETE OUR PROGRAM WILL RETURN.

>> Reporter: JEREMIAH NOW HAS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE, AND THEY DON'T INCLUDE RETURNING TO THE STREETS.

>> I'M PLANNING IT OUT RIGHT NOW.

SO IN ABOUT FIVE YEARS, I'M GOING TO BE ALMOST 29.

28.

I WANT TO BE IN A LOFT APARTMENT, IN LAW SCHOOL.

WITH MY -- >> Reporter: OVER 300 KIDS GRADUATED FROM OLD SCHOOL.

THERESA WOULD LIKE TO SEE OLD SCHOOL CAFES IN CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

BUT EVEN THIS ONE IS STILL STRUGGLING.

SHE SAYS SHE'LL KEEP PRAYING.

FOR RELIGION AND ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, I'M LUCKY SEVERSON IN SAN FRANCISCO.

>>> ON OUR CALENDAR THIS WEEK, SHIITES FROM AROUND THE WORLD OBSERVED THE ASSUREA DAY OF MOURNING COMMEMORATING THE KILLING OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S GRANDSON IN IRAQ IN 680 A.D. FOR JEWS THIS WEEK MARKS THE SEVEN-DAY FESTIVAL, THE FEAST OF TABERNACLE TABERNACLES.

JEWS RECALL THEIR ANCESTORS 40 YEARS OF WANDERING IN THE DESERT BY BUILDING A FRAGILE STRUCTURE CALLED A SUKA WHICH THEY USE FOR PRAYERS AND PEOPLES.

>>> FINALLY, NEXT WEEK, CELEBRATING THE BIRTH OF THE BOB.

THEY BELIEVE IN THE EARLY 1800s, THE BOB WAS A MESSENGER OF GOD WHO PREPAREDS THE WAY FOR THE FOUNDER OF THEIR FAITH.

>>> THAT'S OUR PROGRAM FOR NOW.

I'M BOB ABERNETHY.

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