Dear Friends

Thank you for visiting Project IMPACT-DAYTON’S website. We are excited that you have expressed an interest in supporting the vision given to us in 1986 as a response to the epidemic of violence and substance abuse destroying our city’s youth.

My husband, the late Bishop Willie Mitchell, and I, initially modeled our local program after The Project IMPACT Diversion Center, founded by Matthew and Mary Harris in South Central, LA. This successful youth counseling and job referral agency, offered young people a positive alternative to gangs, drugs, and all the other things that destroy young lives.

In response to a community needs assessment, Impact Dayton restructured it’s program to better fit the needs of the Dayton Community and thus, in 1993, the award winning Truancy Prevention Project was implemented as the first official program of Project Impact-Dayton.

Since that time, a variety of other programs were created to help prevent youth substance abuse and help families and their children succeed. We at Project IMPACT recognize that everyone who has access to, and influences our children assumes and educational responsibility for that child.

It is within this broader context that we call for a redistribution of responsibility so that “everyone” who influences the lives of our children, plays a vital role in their development and empowerment. We strongly believe that our youth can begin to reduce levels of retrogressive behavior through Project IMPACT, which enables individuals to take action, to control and improve their lives.

You are a vital part of this process and we invite you to become a member of the project Impact team and make a financial contribution to the organization. Because truly together we make the difference in fighting to take back our youth!

Sincerely,

Bishop Marva L. Mitchell