Interfaith Coalition Mounts Leadership Summit to Explore Engaging Gang Culture to Reduce Youth Violence in Newark

The first public meeting of the Interfaith Coalition will be held on Thursday, April 3, from 5 – 8:30 pm at the Newark Symphony Hall. City leaders from non-profit organizations, social services agencies, churches, mosques, temples, and other religious organizations have been invited to this session which will include a reception and networking time, as well as formal presentations by Newark-based former gang members and parents of gang members, and by two guests: Rev. Jeffrey Brown, one of the founders of Boston's Ten Point Coalition and Imam Earl El-Amin from the Muslim Community Cultural Center of Baltimore, Maryland, both models of grassroots religious-based programs which have transformed gang violence in those two cities.