"We''ve gone through a sort of...well...I don''t want to say shakeup...but a shakeup in my attitude," says Carey Crockett, founder and artistic director of Unicorn Theater.

"We didn''t know what a big scar the demolition of the San Xavier warehouse would leave in our hearts," says Barbara Bass Evans, co-chair of the Monterey Action Coalition (MAC), a grassroots activist group. The sardine-era warehouse was deemed unsafe and torn down last year. "If we had some …

Teri Short was 17 and a student at Salinas High in 1982 when she gave birth to her first son. Two years later, she had another child. And then another. There were no "teen mother" programs at the time to help her, she says.