In 1987, he founded (with Jack Jacqua) the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, which has so far taken 500 youths off the street and sent 108 to college. He is also co-host of "Street Soldiers," a call-in radio program that is broadcast weekly in San Francisco and biweekly in Los Angeles with an audience now approaching 200,000. His callers ask tough questions about gangs, drugs and the pressure of being a teen-ager in the ghetto.