Leap’s Gangs and Territorialism project seeks ways to harness the energy and companionship of the gang into sources of new leadership and learning.
The project will develop active group work programmes, inspired by fresh and challenging thinking and underpinned by sound theory and engagement of young people. The project will:
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Develop conflict resolution interventions with new and existing partner organisations around the UK. Follow
this link for further details.
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Disseminate skills and techniques
through practitioner training and production of group work
training materials. Follow
this link
for further
details on training opportunities.
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Enable young people's perspectives to be heard in policy
making forums
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The project is not only important for the young people directly
involved, but also has strategic and policy implications for
those working in criminal and restorative justice.
For more information about the Gangs and Territorialism
project, please visit the Guardian
website to see an article on the project by Raekha
Prasad, published July 16th 2003 in Society Guardian, or
download the article
here
(.pdf, NB this is a large file, 3.18MB, and may take some time
to download).
"If you want to be famous, you have to be talented. If
you want to be the toughest you have to join a gang”
- Youth gang member
“If there is a problem between the gangs we need to be
able to resolve it amongst ourselves. Adults don’t need
to get involved, but we do need the skills to be able to sort
the conflict out.”
- Youth gang member
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