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Ten Point Coalition

TenPoint is a Plan to Mobilze the Churches to;
1. Establish "Adopt-A-Gang programs to serve as drop-in centers and sanctuaries for troubled youth.
2. Commission missionaries to serve as advocates and ombudsmen for black and Latino Juveniles in the courts.
3. Commission youth evangelists to do street level one-on-one evangelism with youth involved in drug trafficking.
4. Establish accountable, community-based economic development projects.
5. Establish links between suburban and downtown churches and ministries to provide spiritual and material support.
6. Initiate and support neighborhood crimewatch programs within local church neighborhoods.
7. Establish working relationships between local churches and community-based health centers to provide pastoral counseling for families during times of crisis.
8. Convene a working summit meeting for christian black and latino men and women in order to discuss the development of christian brotherhoods and sisterhoods that would provide rational alternatives to violent gang life.
9. Establish rape crisis drop-in centers and services for battered women.
10. Develop an aggressive black and latino curriculum, with an additional focus on the struggles of women and poor people.
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