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Brian Greene
Words cannot describe what they mean to me, and if not for On Point, I never would have met them.
“I’m not sure what I would have done without On Point.”
Growing up, Brian’s mother was in prison and his father struggled with drug addiction. He was raised by his grandmother, Carol J. Miller, whom he describes as his personal hero. “She took me in when she did not have to. Even with her ailments and old age, she tried her best to give me everything my parents couldn’t.”
During Brian’s senior year of high school, his grandmother’s illnesses finally forced her to enter a nursing home—and he found himself homeless. It was at that point that On Point for College stepped in to support Brian, finding him summer housing at Le Moyne College, where he lived during the summer before his freshman year at Erie Community College, and throughout subsequent summers—until he met Janice and Dick Geddes, OPFC mentors, who took him in and made him part of their family.
“My life was changed forever,” Brian said. “Words cannot describe what they mean to me, and if not for On Point, I never would have met them.”
Brian graduated from Buffalo State in 2014 with a degree in public health. While in college, he was captain of the football team and an all-conference player. He now works as a College Access Advisor at On Point, where he helps students facing many of the same challenges he has endured, and he volunteers as a mentor for male athletes in the Syracuse City School District.