Pine remarked, “Homeless teenagers and those in foster care or with criminal pasts are among the most likely to be dropouts.”

"How can we build a future for kids who have had no opportunities, no parenting, no mentoring, who bounce around from foster home to foster home? Then, they age out. They get pregnant. They're on welfare. They go to jail. It adds up. What we can do is open an academy and take in 200 to 400 at a time, change their lives and in turn, they can help others," said Pine.

A decade ago, Pine saw the need for a theme-based program which could help troubled teenagers. Four years ago, Baldoni started to picture a video production school for teenagers in high school. He thought it could even be a studio which could be rented out to filmmakers for shoots in Oregon.

After Pine was hired by Southern Oregon’s Educational Service District, Kathy McCollum, the school improvement director at ESD, fused both of their concepts together.

This youth academy will take millions of dollars to put up and both Baldoni and Pine will need to make the funding come together as well as find facilities for the academy.

Not only will the school have classes on video production but it will also provide counseling for mental health issues and alcohol and drug treatment.

Those homeless or foster teens could dorm in the school area and would receive state funding from the state along with additional allowance per pupil.

Both Pine and Baldoni want to show troubled teens that school can be interesting. Including film subjects in the curriculum could easily catch a distracted teen’s attention and take it from negative actions to positive ones which he could use to further progress in the subject.

Pine commented, "As they're doing hands-on activities, they're getting the basics."

The proposed location for the school is in Jackson County where both Pine and Baldoni are situated.