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Article: PREVENTING GANG VIOLENCE:ISIS SAPP-GRANT
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- June 4, 2007
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Congressional Testimony
06-04-2007
Statement of Isis Sapp-Grant Executive Director and Founder Youth Empowerment
Mission Inc. Committee on House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy
Families and Communities June 4, 2007 Good Morning Mr. Chairman and distinguished
Members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to appear before
you today. My name is Isis Sapp-Grant and I am the Executive Director and
founder of the Youth Empowerment Mission Inc. an organization based in
Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn New York. YEM was founded in 1995 to meet the
critical needs of young people affected by gangs, violence and delinquency.
We approach this through integrated initiatives that engaged youth, ...