About Us

About Us

About Us

Our Founding Story

Our Founder, the late Rev. Faith Brown, believed that love never fails, not for the gang member nor the neighbor struggling with addiction. Through that conviction, Rev. Faith established Urban Youth Alliance in New York City, which eventually gave birth to the Connect programs. Rev. Brown planted our roots on Fox Street in 1970, at a time when most of the world turned its back on the drug and incarceration epidemic plaguing our Bronx community.

Reverend Faith Brown

Founder of Urban Youth Alliance, Int’l, Inc.

Our Founding Story

Our Founder, the late Rev. Faith Brown, believed that love never fails, not for the gang member nor the neighbor struggling with addiction. Through that conviction, Rev. Faith established Urban Youth Alliance in New York City, which eventually gave birth to the Connect programs. Rev. Brown planted our roots on Fox Street in 1970, at a time when most of the world turned its back on the drug and incarceration epidemic plaguing our Bronx community.

Reverend Faith Brown

Founder of Urban Youth Alliance, Int’l, Inc.

Our Founding Story

Our Founder, the late Rev. Faith Brown, believed that love never fails, not for the gang member nor the neighbor struggling with addiction. Through that conviction, Rev. Faith established Urban Youth Alliance in New York City, which eventually gave birth to the Connect programs. Rev. Brown planted our roots on Fox Street in 1970, at a time when most of the world turned its back on the drug and incarceration epidemic plaguing our Bronx community.

Reverend Faith Brown

Founder of Urban Youth Alliance, Int’l, Inc.

Reverend Leon H. Sullivan

Civil Rights Leader and Social Activist

History

The Connect Programs have supported over 2,400 youth in New York City with mentoring, positive youth development, and wraparound case management. Our parent organization, Urban Youth Alliance, was founded in 1970 to build the leadership and self-sufficiency of South Bronx youth and families.
PhillyConnect builds on a twenty-year track record of providing successful community-based pathways for court-involved youth in the Bronx and Harlem. We worked closely with Philadelphia stakeholders to tailor our model to the unique needs of Philadelphia youth. Today, PhillyConnect is honored to have its offices housed at the Leon H. Sullivan Human Services Center, a historic and well-respected agency for the community.

History

The Connect Programs have supported over 2,400 youth in New York City with mentoring, positive youth development, and wraparound case management. Our parent organization, Urban Youth Alliance, was founded in 1970 to build the leadership and self-sufficiency of South Bronx youth and families.
PhillyConnect builds on a twenty-year track record of providing successful community-based pathways for court-involved youth in the Bronx and Harlem. We worked closely with Philadelphia stakeholders to tailor our model to the unique needs of Philadelphia youth. Today, PhillyConnect is honored to have its offices housed at the Leon H. Sullivan Human Services Center, a historic and well-respected agency for the community.

Reverend Leon H. Sullivan

Civil Rights Leader and Social Activist

History

The Connect Programs have supported over 2,400 youth in New York City with mentoring, positive youth development, and wraparound case management. Our parent organization, Urban Youth Alliance, was founded in 1970 to build the leadership and self-sufficiency of South Bronx youth and families.
PhillyConnect builds on a twenty-year track record of providing successful community-based pathways for court-involved youth in the Bronx and Harlem. We worked closely with Philadelphia stakeholders to tailor our model to the unique needs of Philadelphia youth. Today, PhillyConnect is honored to have its offices housed at the Leon H. Sullivan Human Services Center, a historic and well-respected agency for the community.

Reverend Leon H. Sullivan

Civil Rights Leader and Social Activist

Our Challenge

The challenge was to find within our own community the solution to this epidemic. Could the youth focused principles of leadership development used with church youth produce the same success with court-involved youth? Could most high-risk youth of our city, with love, mentorship and support, experience lasting change?

Our Foundation

We’re a faith and community-based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration and violence prevention work. We utilize asset-based mentoring to connect court-involved and high-risk youth and young adults with positive local community resources: to prevent recidivism and address youth-initiated goals in education and employment.

Our Growth

PhillyConnect has joined the NYC Cure Violence initiative to bring our successful model of youth development to an entire community. Our Cure Violence work seeks to improve our neighborhoods holistically. Our Advocacy work gives members of our communities a vehicle to voice their concerns and gain experience and knowledge of the leadership of New York City. And the re-launch of our Workforce and Reentry department gives us the resources to more aggressively support returning citizens and our participants in securing gainful employment.

Our Challenge

The challenge was to find within our own community the solution to this epidemic. Could the youth focused principles of leadership development used with church youth produce the same success with court-involved youth? Could most high-risk youth of our city, with love, mentorship and support, experience lasting change?

Our Foundation

We’re a faith and community-based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration and violence prevention work. We utilize asset-based mentoring to connect court-involved and high-risk youth and young adults with positive local community resources: to prevent recidivism and address youth-initiated goals in education and employment.

Our Growth

PhillyConnect has joined the NYC Cure Violence initiative to bring our successful model of youth development to an entire community. Our Cure Violence work seeks to improve our neighborhoods holistically. Our Advocacy work gives members of our communities a vehicle to voice their concerns and gain experience and knowledge of the leadership of New York City. And the re-launch of our Workforce and Reentry department gives us the resources to more aggressively support returning citizens and our participants in securing gainful employment.

Our Challenge

The challenge was to find within our own community the solution to this epidemic. Could the youth focused principles of leadership development used with church youth produce the same success with court-involved youth? Could most high-risk youth of our city, with love, mentorship and support, experience lasting change?

Our Foundation

We’re a faith and community-based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration and violence prevention work. We utilize asset-based mentoring to connect court-involved and high-risk youth and young adults with positive local community resources: to prevent recidivism and address youth-initiated goals in education and employment.

Our Growth

PhillyConnect has joined the NYC Cure Violence initiative to bring our successful model of youth development to an entire community. Our Cure Violence work seeks to improve our neighborhoods holistically. Our Advocacy work gives members of our communities a vehicle to voice their concerns and gain experience and knowledge of the leadership of New York City. And the re-launch of our Workforce and Reentry department gives us the resources to more aggressively support returning citizens and our participants in securing gainful employment.

Be a part of real change in Philadelphia by partnering with PhillyConnect.

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Be a part of real change in Philadelphia by partnering with PhillyConnect.

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Be a part of real change in Philadelphia by partnering with PhillyConnect.

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PhillyConnect seeks to build stronger and safer communities and promote lifelong gains for youth facing high-level charges.

ADDRESS

Leon H. Sullivan Human Services Center
1415 N Broad St, Suite 230
Philadelphia, PA 19122

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PhillyConnect Office
Main: (267) 773-7530

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