Boys 2 Men Conference will try to 'stop the bleeding'

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'In a gang and want to get out? Hooked on drugs? Mean to your parents? Afraid you have AIDS? Barred from visiting your child?

"You need to come to the Boys 2 Men Conference," said the Rev. Willie D. Brown, host and producer of the Saturday event designed to help young males face their problems and find answers. "We have a generation of young men on life support. We're coming in with the shocking paddles to give them their lives back."

Brown expects 300 to 500 young men, ages 12 and up, to attend. How does he plan to get them?
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The conference will offer counseling, confidential AIDS testing, and prevention and intervention in areas from drugs to child custody.
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"We'll find out each guy's issues. We'll break them to different groups. We'll show them how other people have handled their problems."'