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Social Institution Solutions

Social Institution Solutions. What Schools Could Do. Reducing truancy Parental notification letters After-school-hours programs Alternative schools for high-risk youth In-school programs Developing a school-based gang task force Employing school resource officers

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Social Institution Solutions

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  1. Social Institution Solutions

  2. What Schools Could Do Reducing truancy Parental notification letters After-school-hours programs Alternative schools for high-risk youth In-school programs Developing a school-based gang task force Employing school resource officers Assistance teams for teachers dealing with disruptive or at-risk students

  3. What Government Could Do Creating a task force on gangs and youth violence Facilitating the identification of children-at-risk Openly share gang-relevant information with the public Providing comparative data Conduct an inventory to determine what space be made available to youth-serving agencies Using a community center to target needed events Providing recreational activities Involving senior citizens and other adults

  4. What the Justice System Could Do Opening juvenile records for use in criminal court proceedings Reconsidering the rush to mandatory sentences Imposing a curfew for minors Providing the community with meaningful gang-related statistics Including the subject of gangs in academy and on-going training Creating the position of gang officer or create a gang unit Arresting the most dangerous and untreatable and incarcerate them Establishing the role of gang prosecutor Bringing delinquent youths to court at the earliest age possible Alternative Sentencing

  5. What the Faith Community Could Do Providing facilities for youth programs Establishing a secure group home for at-risk youth Becoming active in youth affairs Tutoring and Keeping Lines of Communication Open Prison Fellowship Ministries Offering education and counseling on abuse Providing anger-management counseling Creating a violence-free zone Keep the doors of faith institutions open at night Neighborhood clean-up and beautification projects Adopt an agency which promotes non-violence among youth

  6. What Businesses and Business Organizations Could Do Adopting a course (such as Economics) in a local school Bringing students/teachers into the work place Providing job training and placement Maintaining a family-friendly workplace Reaching out to good kids from impoverished settings Working with agencies that help high-risk youth Honoring local youth Dedicating a portion of the business's profits to help at-risk youth Providing scholarships to college for deserving youth

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