GTA Faith Alliance
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The GTA
Faith Alliance was founded in February 2003 as a joint effort of about 40 religious leaders focussing on the issue of youth violence, particularly involving gangs and guns. Its chairperson is Reverend Don Meredith
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The Alliance has modelled its activities on the work of Reverend Eugene Rivers
of Boston who has utilized a corps of pastors to who have worked to create alternatives to street gangs for disadvantaged Black youths. The Alliance brought Rivers to Toronto in early 2006 to meet with police and community leaders in an attempt to replicate the "Boston Miracle" in Toronto. As a result, the Alliance launched a program to recruit 400 mentors who would lead 70 youth oriented after-school programs in churches across the city in an attempt to divert at-risk youth from gangs and crime.
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Faith Alliance was founded in February 2003 as a joint effort of about 40 religious leaders focussing on the issue of youth violence, particularly involving gangs and guns. Its chairperson is Reverend Don Meredith
Don Meredith (Canadian clergyman)
Don Meredith is an ordained minister in Canada, executive director of the GTA Faith Alliance which focuses on the issue of youth violence, particularly involving gangs and guns, and a member of the Canadian Senate...
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The Alliance has modelled its activities on the work of Reverend Eugene Rivers
Eugene Rivers
Eugene F. Rivers, 3d is an American activist, and Pentecostal minister based in Boston, Massachusetts.He is Pastor of the , co-founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition and co-chair of the National TenPoint Leadership Foundation...
of Boston who has utilized a corps of pastors to who have worked to create alternatives to street gangs for disadvantaged Black youths. The Alliance brought Rivers to Toronto in early 2006 to meet with police and community leaders in an attempt to replicate the "Boston Miracle" in Toronto. As a result, the Alliance launched a program to recruit 400 mentors who would lead 70 youth oriented after-school programs in churches across the city in an attempt to divert at-risk youth from gangs and crime.
External links
- GTA Faith Alliance official site