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==The Three Doctors==
[[Image:Three_Docs.jpg|thumb|The Three Doctors]]
'''Dr. George Jenkins''', '''Dr. Sampson Davis''' and '''Dr. Rameck Hunt''', fondly known as The Three Doctors serve as an extraordinary model of leadership for anyone who’s been through any kind of life challenge or major hardship.

As teenage boys growing up on the tough inner-city streets of Newark, New Jersey these three kindred spirits made a pact: they would stick together-go to college-graduate-and become doctors. Surrounded by negative influences and having few positive role models, made this a not so easy feat. Now several years later, these three men have overcome countless obstacles and proudly bear the subtitle of doctor and serve as the face of health and education for youth and families across the country.

Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Jenkins serves as Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry at Columbia University. Dr. Davis is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician at St. Michaels Medical Center and Raritan Bay Medical Center. Davis is also consultant for the Violence Prevention Institute focusing on gang awareness and preventative medicine in Essex County. The doctors have additionally authored two inspiring books about their lives: The Pact, for adults, and We Beat the Streets, for children. A third book The Bond, highlighting fatherhood relationships will be released in October 2007.

==The Three Doctors Foundation==
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The three doctors founded '''''The Three Doctors Foundation, Inc.''''' over five years ago to give back to the Newark, New Jersey community in which they grew up. The three doctors overcame the difficult conditions of their youth to become successful doctors and philathropists. The Foundation is primarily dedicated to helping urban underprivileged youth through their Positive Peer Pressure Challenge and Mentor Day programs, though other initiatives, such as the Healthy Mind & Body Walkathon and Holiday Outreach Basketball Tournament aim to support and aid the general community.

The foundation's website can be found at http://www.threedoctorsfoundation.org

===Mission===
The official mission statement of the foundation is to inspire and create opportunities for inner city communities through education, mentoring and health awareness.
The foundation is motivated by four key tenets: Health Education Leadership and Mentoring (HELM), and encourages youngsters to be at the helm of their success. 

The foundation is passionate about touching the lives of inner city community members so that they become empowered and act as change agents to improve the quality of life for themselves and others. We are committed to promoting respect, diversity and life balance within these communities, acting as role models and advocates for the underprivileged.

The foundation's objectives are to increase community volunteerism and leadership, improve the quality of life among inner city youth and families and generate key partnerships with community leaders and peer organizations to maximize program results.


==Program Schedule==
===Positive Peer Pressure Challenge===
''4/2/07- 9/7/07''
The success of Drs. Davis, Hunt and Jenkins began with a childhood promise to become doctors. As youngsters growing up in Newark, NJ they used positive peer pressure to realize their dream, and now through their foundation provide opportunities for young people to participate in positive activities. The challenge competition is therefore a chance for youngsters ages 10-18 to meet the doctors, create helpful projects for their community and receive recognition and prizes for their work. 

Interested youngsters should visit the foundation website to complete the relevant sign-up form. Challenge activities should be related to one or more of the foundation's key focus areas of health, education, leadership or mentoring. Some examples of eligible activities include organizing a health walkathon, initiating a tutoring or study group, or developing a youth anti-violence activity.

Participants must attend middle school or high school and are 10-18 years old. Activities should have a positive community impact and may also include support from teachers, parents and/or local service agencies.

===Mentor Day===
''8/25/07'' 
A special day of career and educational enrichment for youth ages 10-18. 
The doctors have recruited professionals from companies across the tri-state area to mentor youth. Youth will receive guidance regarding their education, career and involvement in positive activities. 
Positive Peer Pressure Challenge participants will also have a chance to give updates on their projects.

The Three Doctors will be present, bringing together young people with professional mentors. Mentors will encourage mentee involvement in the Positive Peer Pressure Challenge. They will also share their educational background and career path to help mentees better envision their blueprint for life-long success. Mentors need not have previous experience working with youth, and they are not obligated to any commitment beyond this one-day experience. 

The day includes a presentation by the doctors, as well as giveaways, raffles, presentations for parents and events for the whole family. It will be held at the New Community Corporation Recreation Center in Newark, NJ, and relevant information is available at the foundation website.

===Healthy Mind & Body Walkathon===
''10/27/07''
A day of health, fitness, food, and fun for the entire family. The walkathon will feature a health fair with many health screenings, demonstrations and vendors, as well as a presentation by the three doctors.

The walkathon will be held in partnership with Rutgers University at the Rutgers-Newark campus. Events will be available for walkers and non-walkers. The focus of this year's walkathon will be obesity, though many other health issues will be addressed as well.

===Spirit of Giving Holiday Basketball Tournament===
''12/8/07''
This event is an opportunity for participants to enjoy a friendly and exciting game of basketball while demonstrating holiday spirit. All attendees are asked to bring a new winter accessories or teen gift that will be donated to underprivileged youth.


==Publications by The Three Doctors==
===''The Pact''===
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The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream was a New York Times Best Seller. Their first book, the three doctors detail their journey to become doctors, beginning with the life-changing pact they made as teenagers. The three doctors recount their difficulties growing up as well as their accomplishments in overcoming day-to-day obstacles. Growing up in broken homes in a crime-ridden area of Newark, N.J., these three authors could easily have followed their childhood friends into lives of drug-dealing, gangs and prison. They tell harrowing stories of being arrested for assault and mugging drug dealers, and of the lack of options they saw as black teenagers. But when their high school was visited by a recruiter from a college aimed at preparing minority students for medical school, the three friends decided to make something of their lives and successfully formed and achieved the goals of their pact.

The Pact is now being used at high schools, colleges and universities all over the country, and continues to inspire youth and adults alike. 


===''We Beat The Street''===
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As The Three Doctors traveled around, people kept urging them to write a book for children. We Beat The Street retells the story of The Pact to a younger audience. It is a book of life lessons demonstrated through experiences by The Three Doctors targeted for children and parents. It is also being included in many curricula across the country.

Author Sharon Draper helped shape chapters, written in the third person, describing each doctor's challenging childhood experiences, including a parent's drug addiction, forays into crime, and succeeding in an environment that made "failing equal to being cool." Following each story, passages written in the doctors' own words offer advice and strategies, and acknowledge the help received along the way. This information is directed straight to young people growing up in similar circumstances, but all readers will be riveted by the profoundly inspirational stories and personal, intimate voices that frankly discuss big mistakes and complicated emotions, including "survivor guilt" for choosing a different path from friends and family.


===''The Bond'' (Release date: October 4, 2007)===
The Three Doctors-Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt-discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: As children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite great odds, the three overcame the statistics. In high school, they formed the Pact, a promise to one another that they would become doctors, and it kept them dedicated to one another and to their dream, and helped to put them on the road to successful careers as physicians. 

In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers' inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors' own words-and their fathers'-they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifing ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that's sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man.

==The Pact Power Kids==
The Pact Power Kids are cartoon creations of the three doctors that are used to inspire young kids. The characters tell the story of the three doctors and encourage kids to make a pact to achieve success through education. 

The Pact Power Kids website can be found at http://www.pactpowerkids.com