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About <strong>The</strong> Author John C (Jack) Johnson III Founder & CEO Jack was educated at Temple University, <strong>in</strong> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Rutgers Law School, <strong>in</strong> Camden, New Jersey. In 1999, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to pursue greater opportunities to provide Advocacy and Preventive Programmatic services for atrisk/ at-promise young persons, their families, and <strong>Justice</strong> Professionals embedded <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Juvenile</strong> <strong>Justice</strong> process <strong>in</strong> order to help facilitate its transcendence <strong>in</strong>to the 21 st Century. <strong>The</strong>re, along with a small group of community and faith-based professionals, “<strong>The</strong> Advocacy Foundation, Inc." was conceived and developed over roughly a thirteen year period, orig<strong>in</strong>ally chartered as a <strong>Juvenile</strong> Del<strong>in</strong>quency Prevention and Educational Support Services organization consist<strong>in</strong>g of Mentor<strong>in</strong>g, Tutor<strong>in</strong>g, Counsel<strong>in</strong>g, Character Development, Community Change Management, Practitioner Re-Education & Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, and a host of related components. <strong>The</strong> Foundation’s Overarch<strong>in</strong>g Mission is “To help Individuals, Organizations, & Communities Achieve <strong>The</strong>ir Full Potential”, by implement<strong>in</strong>g a wide array of evidence-based proactive multi-discipl<strong>in</strong>ary "Restorative & Transformative <strong>Justice</strong>" programs & projects currently throughout the northeast, southeast, and western <strong>in</strong>ternational-waters regions, provid<strong>in</strong>g prevention and support services to at-risk/ at-promise youth, to young adults, to their families, and to Social Service, <strong>Justice</strong> and Mental Health professionals” everywhere. <strong>The</strong> Foundation has s<strong>in</strong>ce relocated its headquarters to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and been expanded to <strong>in</strong>clude a three-tier mission. In addition to his work with the Foundation, Jack also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law & Bus<strong>in</strong>ess at National-Louis University of Atlanta (where he taught Political Science, Bus<strong>in</strong>ess & Legal Ethics, Labor & Employment Relations, and Critical Th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g courses to undergraduate and graduate level students). Jack has also served as Board President for a host of wellestablished and up & com<strong>in</strong>g nonprofit organizations throughout the region, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g “Visions Unlimited Community Development <strong>System</strong>s, Inc.”, a multi-million dollar, award-w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g, Violence Prevention and Gang Intervention Social Service organization <strong>in</strong> Atlanta, as well as Vice-Chair of the Georgia/ Metropolitan Atlanta Violence Prevention Partnership, a state-wide 300 organizational member, violence prevention group led by the Morehouse School of Medic<strong>in</strong>e, Emory University and <strong>The</strong> Orig<strong>in</strong>al, Atlanta-Based, Mart<strong>in</strong> Luther K<strong>in</strong>g Center. Attorney Johnson’s prior accomplishments <strong>in</strong>clude a wide-array of Professional Legal practice areas, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Private Firm, Corporate and Government post<strong>in</strong>gs, just about all of which yielded significant professional awards & accolades, the history and chronology of which are available for review onl<strong>in</strong>e. Throughout his career, Jack has served a wide variety of for-profit corporations, law firms, and nonprofit organizations as Board Chairman, Secretary, Associate, and General Counsel s<strong>in</strong>ce 1990. www.<strong>The</strong>AdvocacyFoundation.org Clayton County <strong>Youth</strong> Services Partnership, Inc. – Chair; Georgia Violence Prevention Partnership, Inc – Vice Chair; Fayette County NAACP - Legal Redress Committee Chairman; Clayton County Fatherhood Initiative Partnership – Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator; Morehouse School of Medic<strong>in</strong>e School of Community Health Feasibility Study - Steer<strong>in</strong>g Committee; Atlanta Violence Prevention Capacity Build<strong>in</strong>g Project – Project Partner; Clayton County M<strong>in</strong>ister’s Conference, President 2006-2007; Liberty In Life M<strong>in</strong>istries, Inc. – Board Secretary; Young Adults Talk, Inc. – Board of Directors; ROYAL, Inc - Board of Directors; Temple University Alumni Association; Rutgers Law School Alumni Association; Sertoma International; Our Common Welfare Board of Directors – President)2003-2005; River’s Edge Elementary School PTA (Co-President); Summerhill Community M<strong>in</strong>istries; Outstand<strong>in</strong>g Young Men of America; Employee of the Year; Academic All-<strong>American</strong> - Basketball; Church Trustee. 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