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The Santa Fe Boys Educational Foundation supports public discourse projects and research through publications and a series of conferences on Boys at Risk to promote better understanding of the developmental needs of young males. Early psychopathologies place boys at greater risk for negative outcomes later in life. Boys at Risk Boys at Risk defines the underlying vulnerabilities that too many boys experience. We see these in adolescence and adulthood in such outcomes as school failure criminal activity violence perpetration unstable employment and frequent and long incarcerationsall statistically much more likely to be suffered by males.