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Our X Gangsters have shared that “a new level of youth violence is specifically due to the waves of influence that have become rooted in our region. The international teams have invaded the U.S. in a whole new dynamic in the last 2 years.

Those representatives at the state level have ratcheted up the violence bar and have made the local youth respond in order to be able to retain their areas of influence. Now we have regular incidents that we previously would never have thought acceptable.

Our youth in the different regions groups are reporting that the fear has escalated and we know that fear drives a spiral of events. We feel that we may have little time to respond and insert reasonable mechanism's to defuse what is obviously still unfolding.”

What’s your point…?

This is a community problem and must be addressed from a community standpoint. We need Social Service, The Police Dept. the Schools, the Dept of Housing, and the local community centers working hand in hand with the Faith based volunteer services. We need each other, and only a combined response will largely reduce gang violence. They are very coordinated, and it is time for us to respond, in kind.

How Can GXG Help?

1.  We would like to do a complete, 3-hour, training for you and your Staff with the materials and gang prevention/intervention training that we have gathered.
 
This is a usable and realistic means to identify behaviors and realize when an individual is beginning a cycle that needs intervention, rather then responding afterwards. We would like to also help implement a 10-point school program that puts the Community on your team and gives you a referral base to utilize as a means of a future support mechanism for your youth.
 
2.  If you feel comfortable with the idea, we would like to help you organize and participate in a Neighborhood' Parents/Leaders/Stakeholders meeting, that would have communication as its goal.
 
These youth will most certainly be impacted by the assembly and if they go home and ask their parents to help, then the students become and agent for change in their homes, and their parents, are part of the community. Their parents are employees of companies, civil servants, community activists, church members, and each having their own areas of influence. When all of these groups are invited to help support the school and help effectively be a part of the change, then the neighborhood has truly begun a movement towards progress. The benefit of identifying what is available in our area, as resources, is that we. Fold in/Invite those who want to help, by providing what they already do, as "Part" of the complete answer. This meeting would basically highlight the opportunities to work together and invite them to make their services available as part of the neighborhood network that surrounds them.
 
[Please note that GXG has demonstrated how to secure collaborative agreements with many of the area's States and local Gov. Networks, and other key leaders who support a 'targeted' area of the city. (I.e. this was firmly set in motion in Central Norfolk, as we would be able to drop a complete process that you could implement in your own area, in two meetings with stakeholders and a local College Partner)]
 
We would be grateful for the opportunity to fold out network of support services into your work with the parents as many of the key stakeholders have youth at schools. If you decide to hold a Parents Night/Community awareness meeting that includes the youth and their parents, we would support you to see it and walk away with something long term in hand.

Parents will love this, as it gives them visible evidence of good news and support systems that they didn't know were available to them and their youth which means we can also help to undergird the students desire to be a hero in their own neighborhood and help change the city. If we ask the youth to go home and bring their parents back to a community meeting to change their neighborhood and make it safer for us all, then the youth own it, and they are the key element for the marketing and the connections. They enjoy this roll and it puts them in the middle.
 
3.  Lastly, we would like to propose that you consider allowing us to be an ongoing resource for you, by utilizing the Prevention/Intervention video's and extended seminars (materials and demonstrative work shops included).
 
This would give you a visible reason to apply for the additional funding that is now available for these kinds of community wide programs. We would like to help set up support mechanisms to address all multiple challenges that youth face in everyday life. By setting in motion a series of steps, we can under gird the right choices that youth make, and help provide a continuum of services to support those decisions. We have committed to be a resource for your teams; and if you send us a short letter outlining your response to this basic proposal, we would be able to book a week of implementation.
 

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America’s youth are scared and do not want to “have” to be so tough. They are looking for a way out and will need a third party to provide it. We believe that a peaceful option should be set in place before cafeteria incidents emerge, and school parking lot rage becomes acceptable.

If this peacefully initiative is not implemented by a realistic person, who is perceived and noted as seemingly aware, or is not a visible peer, they it won't be an acceptable choice for the youth. They usually respond to youth who have been where they are.
 

“A youth coalition needs to be part of any organizational initiative to target an area, for change.The youth, are the key, as they want to be part of any solution that affects them. That way, they own it, and will support and carry it. We need to get organized now, as the youth are very organized already.”

The Federal Justice Teams
Washington D.C. January 2006