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Mentorship program

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University launched a new mentorship program Tuesday created by Professor Joseph Lyons which will pair trained and caring senior-citizen mentors with teenagers struggling with behavioral, emotional, mental and abuse issues. The YSU Senior Mentorship Program is a partnership that unites the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, Safehouse Ministries, a nonprofit social service agency in Youngstown, and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of the Mahoning Valley. Lyons, director of YSU’s master of health and human services degree program, said he believes the program will have a positive impact on the young adults and their mentors.

Sentenced to prison

YOUNGSTOWN

A man who pleaded guilty in August to a February shooting was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Algernon Franklin, 24, of Redgate Lane in Austintown, was sentenced by Judge John Durkin on charges of aggravated robbery, felonious assault, being a felon in possession of a firearm and carrying concealed weapons. Franklin pleaded guilty to wounding a 19-year-old man during an attempted robbery Feb. 17 in a parking lot on West Wood Street.

CCA plans workshop

YOUNGSTOWN

The Community Corrections Association will host its second annual Ex-Offenders Resource Workshop at 9 a.m. Oct. 2 at the Day Reporting Center, 1771 Market St. Speakers from OhioMeans-Jobs Mahoning, the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 396, Job and Family Services and more will speak on the workshop topic “Breaking the Barriers to Your Success.”

YMHA plans to meet

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority will meet at noon today in the board room at Amedia Plaza, 131 W. Boardman St.

Prostate-cancer talk

AUSTINTOWN

On Tuesday at 5 p.m., N.E.O. Urology Associates and Partners for Urology Health will host “Prostate Cancer & You,” at 6262 Mahoning Ave. Suite C. The talk is free. To register, call 330-729-9214 or 330-779-6851. The lecture will feature Urologist Dr. Daniel J. Ricchiuti from N.E.O. Urology and focus on understanding risk factors, who should be screened, and detection and treatment of prostate cancer. This is the first of a series of lectures offered by the Urology Care Foundation, N.E.O. Urology Associates and Partners for Urology Health to help inform people how to treat and prevent urologic disease.