Mission Statement

The mission of Brotherly Love Urban Youth Services is to develop leadership with moral character among urban youth. Love them around their needs. Lead them and prepare them for leadership. Let them go so that they can love and lead others.

The Challenge

The major influences are number one family, two peers, three television and music and four school and church. The inner-city church provided guidance to many more youth in the past than today. Church was the place where most children could have their moral convictions affirmed by a loving community of adults. Now so many urban youths grow up without a sense of what is truly right and wrong. So many of them are confused and frustrated about their moral responsibility as it relates to how they treat and respond to others.

We must work to instill a sense of dignity in our youth by affirm their God given rights to be loved, to feel safe and cared for in a way that makes them conscious of their spiritual and moral identity. The cycle of poverty in our inner-city continue to cripple generation after generation. The lack of resources and opportunities has created an overwhelming sense of hopelessness in some youth. The day in the life of an urban youth can sometimes be a consistence reminded of what they don't have at home, school and on the streets.

We must work to create opportunities for the youth by helping them achieve academically and open doors for them to gain employable skills. So that they can use those advances to care for themselves, raise a family and be a leader in their communities. Violent crime continues to be the main concern of parents raising children in the inner-city.

More youths are falling victim to violence than ever before. Murder, assault, child abuse and rape are affecting children between the ages of five and fifteen years old. Now more than ever perpetrator of these crimes are youths themselves. Violence has become a tool to get their needs and wants met. The inability to manage anger and fear has made many neighborhood, schools and homes a ticking time bomb. We must train our children how to properly handle conflict and how to exercise forgiveness.

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