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Alternatives to delinquency in Harlem: A study of faith-based community mentoring

This article examines a faith-based initiative known as the Blue Nile Rites of Passage program (BNROP), that includes a mentoring component for 11-15 years old children. Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City introduced the program in 1993. The article presents the use of mentoring in a faith-based setting as a tool for the prevention of delinquency and drug use. The results from the BNROP program were compared to those offered in an U.S. Department of Justice crime prevention report (Sherman et al. , 1997) that purported the value of community-based mentoring. Further tests of the effectiveness of the Harlem church's approach awaits anticipated studies on the effects of newly implemented government funded faith-based initiatives.