![]() ![]() He uses that message when he tells them to clean up their mess in the park. So when he talks to young men about the obstacles in their lives, they tend to listen, he said. “I had to learn the hard way,” said Burns-Davis, a former resident assistant at Sojourner Recovery Center in Hamilton, which provides substance abuse treatment for women, men, adolescents and their families Eventually, Burns-Davis was convicted of selling heroin and he served 15 months in the state’s Correctional Reception Center penitentiary in Orient. He turned to the streets and the easy money those on the corner provide. ![]() After he graduated from Garfield Alternative School in 2003, he attended Kentucky State University for 2 1/2 years, but during his return visits home, his life took an “interesting turn,” he said. Without opportunities, Burns-Davis said youth will turn into “something you can’t control.” ![]() “That’s a feeling you can’t buy with a dollar bill. “Man you should see the smiles on the kids’ faces,” he said when about the reaction he has received. But that little effort has paid big dividends, he said. ![]()
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