Summary:

As we address those at risk to gang recruitment, we seek to identify the exceptional former gang member who is then invited to join the initial core group, as an intern. Those new X Gangster members, are to be trained by one of our leaders, not only in peer recruitment, per mentorship, peer and counseling, for the target audience. Leaderships gifts make way for themselves, and only need room to grow. Youth are dying to belong some where, in a ‘family’ that wants them, and is readily available.

Once the participants have entered the process for a life change, an advisor (mentor) helps ensure a seamless transition from this program into prescribed follow up treatment (Life plan) held by various point centers and alternative services. In a constantly-building motion, each of the “student leaders” are provided a variety of progressive step up principles of Leadership trainings, with the specific point, that they will eventually be expected to help ‘pay back’, as a catalyst for change, in their own neighborhoods. This is initially meant to close the circle of and * redirect generational behaviors. * Attachment 1

Secondarily, these youth and their families provide a neighborhood ‘doorway’, to sift in those who they can readily identify who need local alternatives to incarceration. To that end, our team is a linking mechanism for several teams, to other groups and a sifting mechanism to engage youth for their programs, as well. This is the Community in unity, working together.

A strategic advantage of community partnerships, is the fact we are linked to many parts of the community in a coordinated family of local service providers, that can offer extended help to youth in crises, and their families, in their own neighborhoods. At neighborhood network point-centers, teams in our collaborative, have a vast array of resources to help keep the committed involved in various forms of family stabilization.  It is because of our partners that GXG has been able to address the direct needs of

so many at-risk youth, while provided realistic training, in partnership, with many organizations in the Hampton Roads communities, as well. This is the Community in unity, working together.
 
 

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