Now, I am vocal about things I don't like. It then moves to the community. Before, you might pass others who live in the neighborhood every day and say 'Hey' and just keep walking. And it leads to change. The crime rate is down, we can sit on our porches now without having to grab our kids and run in the house, ducking from bullets.
People get along better now.
One resident noted another change she relates to Plain Talk. We haven't seen that many pregnancies this summer. That's a blessing. Around 200 of every 1,000 teenage girls had become pregnant, compared to 89 of every 1,000 girls throughout the county. Plain Talk was launched out of the Center for Black Women's Wellness.