The GTA Faith Alliance is a multi-faith charitable organization which works to create educational and employment opportunities to divert at-risk youth from gangs and crime.
The alliance was founded in February 2003 as a joint effort of approximately 40 religious leaders focussing on the issue of youth violence, particularly involving gangs and guns.
[3] The Alliance has formed its activities on the work of Reverend Eugene Rivers of Boston who has utilized a corps of pastors.
These pastors have worked to create alternatives to street gangs for disadvantaged Black youths.
[4] As a result, the Alliance launched a program to recruit 400 mentors who would lead 70 youth oriented after-school programs in churches across the city in an attempt to divert at-risk youth from gangs and crime.