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THE NU-DREAMS ORGANIZATION:
by Pastor David Turnipseed Get Paid into $1299 position Just by bringing in 6THE NU-DREAMS ORGANIZATION:
Mission Statement: We aim to provide solutions with God help to the issues of gang violence , at-risk youth and domestic violence. Our Faith ?based network of community likeminded organizations work to protect the innocent and provide remedies and hope to the perpetrator ,we understand everyone is the victim and look to point these facts out to all we service.
Statement of Problem: Our best way to describe the problem is through the most prevalent victim in the last couple of years , Derrion Albert. The senseless act set off a out pouring of a need to find solutions , US Attorney General Eric Holder offered his prescription for youth violence and the kind of rage that caused the beating death of Chicago student Derrion Albert : "A comprehensive, coordinated approach ... that encompasses the latest research." The factors that lead to violence are well understood ? untreated mental illness, educational failure, gang culture, and alcohol. Yet there isn't one easy "fix," be it more police, afterschool programs, mentors, or gang intervention Derrion's death seems to have galvanized policymakers. The brutal beating caught on videotape, in which two groups from the same high school but different neighborhoods brawled, is indicative of a broader trend of growing violence among young black males.
Between 2002 and 2007, the number of homicides involving black male juveniles as victims grew by about 30 percent and, as perpetrators, by more than 40 percent, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. At the time, overall crime rates were going down or staying flat.
CeaseFire's success
Gary Slutkin believes he has found an antidote. As the executive director of CeaseFire, he has seen shootings and killings in the districts where he operates drop by 30 to 70 percent. In 2009 I was the program director for the southwest branch of Cease Fire and we were very effective in our relationships with the multiple gangs in the that area and impacted the communities from the youth to the parents as well as the community organizations and churches . The constant drying up of funding effects continual progress.
The key is a systematic approach that focuses on certain individuals as "transmitters" of violence. Trained "violence interrupters," many of whom have a gang history themselves, are plugged into the community and get warnings when someone is upset and likely to act out. They reach out to the likely perpetrators and help talk them out of it.
Meanwhile, outreach workers try to change the attitudes of high-risk individuals, persuading them that it's not reasonable to shoot someone because of dispute about money or a girl.
This is how epidemics are reversed. You interrupt the transmission, work with those most likely to transmit next, and work on the overall behavioral norm that underlies it.
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Get Paid into $1299 position Just by bringing in 6God drives us daily to make a difference and show others how they are manipulated ,and you would be surprise at the number of people who were just waiting on us to release the pressure they were under. Mar 10th 2011 07:21 |
Praise God you are answering His call on your life!! You are another example of somebody doing something positive to rid the world of violence!!
Mar 9th 2011 09:52