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Youth Leadership Development with Grant Funding from Urban Alliance

Nov 23, 2021 | UA News

This year, UA offered The Hartford Project (THP) grant funding to support their 2021 youth-led service project. UA’s Child- and Youth-led Service Project grant helps fund projects developed and led by children or youth to positively impact their community, with the support and partnership of adult leaders. The goal of this grant is for the successful development and implementation of youth-led projects that lead to positive youth development outcomes, such as increased leadership and critical thinking skills, commitment to making a contribution in the community, and healthy adult-youth relationships for participating youth, and sustainable community transformation.

The grant funding allowed the members of THP’s Youth Advisory Board to create, implement, and execute a plan to meet the physical and spiritual needs of those experiencing homelessness in the local community.  The plan consisted of building and distributing care packages to the homeless community in Hartford, and strategically using the distribution of the care packages as a way to “encourage and foster God-centered conversations with the homeless population in Hartford.” Each care package contained hygiene products, non-perishable food items, bibles, and first-aid kits, and other important basic need items. Their desire was to share the love of Christ while meeting physical needs in this vulnerable community.

We are thrilled to see young people given an opportunity to build leadership skills in partnership with caring adults who believe they are valuable and are a vital asset in our society.

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The staff at Urban Alliance are familiar with Pastor Frank because he is a regular attendee to many of the trainings Urban Alliance provides on subjects like domestic violence, addressing childhood trauma, and better counseling techniques. “That’s been so valuable to me to be able to bring that back, not only in my counseling but also in my teaching and preaching ministries, “ shared Termine.

Pastor Frank was also one of the original members of the Micah group, a group of pastors that meets at Urban Alliance to discuss and strategize about challenging issues that face the church today. One of those earlier discussions on justice, incarceration, and returning citizens was particularly memorable. “We all lamented the fact that these men and women were coming out of prison into our churches and just kind of being thrown there,” said Termine, “We could do better than this.” That discussion planted the seeds that eventually led to the creation of Second Chance Churches – an opportunity for churches to provide support and mentoring to returning citizens that continues today.

When we asked Pastor Frank what he would say to another church that was unaware of Urban Alliance, he said, “If you are looking to get out in the community and make a difference in the community, Urban Alliance is a super way to do it. We’re a small church … we can’t do everything. Urban Alliance is a pathway to get our people involved in ministries that are already doing it, doing it well, and just need extra volunteers.”

Pastor Frank Termine’s story embodies many things we are trying to accomplish at Urban Alliance: supporting organizations in the communities they serve with training, resources, and opportunities to make a difference. Pastors and non-profit leaders face a wide range of challenges and, therefore, need a wide range of help and resources. Your support can help turn stories of struggle into stories like you find at Calvary Church.

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