BronxConnect came out of the youth organization Urban Youth Alliance. The mother of Urban Youth Alliance, Rev. Faith Brown, loved New York City. She loved the drug addict, she loved the gang member, and she deeply loved the inner city. The roots of Urban Youth Alliance began on the Fox Street in the Bronx in 1970, where drug addiction was prolific. In 1999 when asked by Public/Private Ventures to create a program that brought the strength of the urban church to the epidemic of youth incarceration, the Board of UYA looked to its roots and said “of course.”
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