Partnering with our Community - Our community partnerships are vital to accomplish the vision to rebuild and restore the lives of young people in Juvenile Detention Centers particularly the NVJDH. Volunteers of diverse backgrounds can dramatically impact the lives in their community. 


Our Development Asset  Focus will be to increase them through Community Partnerships

Parents and Other Adults Model Positive, Responsible Behavior 31%

Youth believe Community Values them - 22%


Our programming is designed for you to help us: 

  • Connect – Build Relationships then Build Respect

  • Engage- Teach the Mind, Move the Body, Edify the Soul and Release the Faith

  • Encourage –Discover, Build Up, Challenge, Inspire 

  • Encourage –Discover, Build Up, Challenge, Inspire 

  • Express- Music, Spoken Word, Creative Arts 

  • Reach the Lost – Grace, Truth, Time and the Love of Christ 

We encourage and We challenge you to consider investing in The Urban Passage, Inc..    Here's How....... Our opportunities to volunteer are posted on VolunteerMatch.org.  There you will an array of opportunities that give you options to serve based on your availability.   Have your Employee Resource or Human Resource Staff contact us via VolunteerMatch.org or at info@theurbanpassage.org.

 How Do We Know It Will work?

“Meaningful interventions especially those that create opportunities for employment and positive social relationships can alter life paths of delinquent youth so they can live relatively crime-free lives.”

Dr. Delbert S. Elliot

Director of the Center for Study and Prevention of Violence

AECF DMC Report Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform to resist negative peer pressure? *


The Board of Directors - click to view bios
Kimberly Y Moore – President & Chairwoman
Janet O. Ibru – Secretary & Treasurer
Michael L. Jenkins- Vice President
Cheryl C. Lenzley, Minister
David E. Thomas, (M.S.) (Ed.M.)
Royan Holland - Program Director