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Ronald Brown, C.A.C.
If you want to rehabilitate people, you have to rehabilitate them from within and where they live and the way they live. |
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Community Health Leaders
1996
Area(s) of expertise:
Community development
Substance abuse
Leader’s Biography 1996:
Executive Director, Flint Odyssey House & Odyssey House of Saginaw, Flint, MI
A former heroin addict, Brown--who started with $200 in food stamps and no funding commitments--has built a multi-million dollar substance abuse treatment program. Located in one of the city’s highest drug trafficking and prostitution areas, he has begun to realize his vision of reclaiming the neighborhoods from drug dealers, crack house by crack house. The organization’s "Treat the Streets" program is now a major force in revitalizing this community hit hard by double-digit unemployment.
Where this Leader can be reached today:
Executive Director
Odyssey House & Odyssey House of Saginaw
529 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue
Flint, MI 48503
Phone: (810) 238-7226
Email: ronald@odysseyvillage.com
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