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WHY S.E.T.’S ARE NEEDED:

Youth violent crime can seriously affect the quality of life for victims and their families. In addition, people living in communities with high crime rates often suffer from fear, anxiety, and a loss of freedom as people restrict their activities to avoid becoming victims of violence. Society also pays for violence through expenditures for police and criminal justice interventions, social services, and preventive educational activities. Exposure to community violence can be traumatic for children, and children exposed to community violence might be at risk for depression, interpersonal problems, or academic difficulty. However, exposure to community violence is associated with other risk factors such as poverty, so the causal relationships are not known.

 

Youth who show high levels of aggression throughout childhood and adolescence are themselves at higher risk for a variety of outcomes that affect the quality of life including low educational attainment, persistent unemployment, poor physical health, alcohol and drug abuse, unintentional injury, depression, suicide attempts, relationship conflict, spouse abuse, and neglectful and abusive parenting as adults. They also are at increased risk of being killed or permanently maimed.

 

Identifying and understanding risk and protective factors related to youth violence is a cornerstone of effective prevention. A risk factor increases the probability that a person will engage in violent behavior, and a protective factor decreases the negative impact of risk factors. Risk and protective factors that predict youth violence are developmentally specific. Interventions must take into account that different risk and protective factors are especially relevant at different ages. Risk and protective factors are typically grouped across five domains:

 

  • • Individual

  • • Family

  • • Peers

  • • School

  • • Community

 

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Street Engagement Teams

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Safe Passage

Engage at-risk young people on the streets, parks, spiritual meeting places, and common areas in the community. Our goal is to go to the places where young people hang out. We want to “touch” as many lives as possible.

 

 

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Risk Factors

There are complex relationships among the risk factors both within and across domains. As children develop, the relative importance of risk factors and domains changes. Studies have shown that risk factors have additive effects. As a youth’s exposure to risk factors increases, the impact of risk factors dramatically increases. For example, if a youth is exposed to six or more risk factors at age 10, the likelihood of that youth becoming violent by age 18 is 10 times greater than if the youth is exposed to only one risk factor. Many of the known risk factors might not be causal but perhaps function as markers of groups at high risk for violent behavior.

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ABOUT S.E.T.

WHAT S.E.T.'s DO

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  • Engage at-risk young people on the streets, parks, spiritual meeting places, and common areas in the community. Our goal is to go to places where young people hang out. We want to “touch” as many lives as possible

  • Refer community resources to young people from our pool of resources that may lead them to greater opportunities. We do not want to just tell our young people to not join gangs and get involved with the street life we are asking them “how can we make your life better”. This will allow us the opportunity to see the world through their eyes. From that point on we should be making a point to getting in touch with a guardian who will allow us to point them in the right direction for the services they are in need of

  • Connect to the greater community in an effort to bring more people around to the S.E.T. point of view. It takes a village to raise a child, therefore, we are combining our passion for helping young people with the resources of the community. Sometimes young people do not know the resources around them, sometimes young people are not allowed to travel to other locations because of boundary issues we need to know this and alternatives so they can receive the help they need.

  • Mentor young people in areas such as school, personal matters and in some cases spiritual growth. For the most part most people who later go on to a life of crime did not receive or did not recognize help from loved ones, community or spiritual leaders, we are taking this as our cue to fit into this gap so that no one can say that they never met an “Angel” and that they were not better for it.

  • Stay on top of our own personal matters so we can be the best example of peace. We must be a good example of a Parent Leader. There should be a clear line between those we are trying to help and ourselves. We must also not try to be too righteous as this may turn off some of the young people we are trying to assist

  • Go into the community with the intention of keeping young people out of prison and free from violent actions on their part. We are not a vigilante group, we are not law enforcement. We do not go into the community with the intention of having our young people locked up or hurt. We should wish them only the best. If an incident shall arise contact your lead.

  • Work to reduce violence by changing the mindset of young people who may be on the fence when it comes to violence and how it affects the area. We have the philosophy that any situation can be turned around when we work towards helping young people see the light of a life free of prison and gang violence

  • We are residents in the area in which we are volunteering. People who live or work in the area they are volunteering have an invested interest in making sure that violence drops in their area. Being a violence prevention volunteer is one great way to make that happen

  • We believe all young people have the capacity to do great things for our community. We will encourage young people to pick up the violence Prevention banner so they too can make a difference in their community.

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WHAT S.E.T. DO NOT DO:

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  • Mediate gangs and gun conflicts. We partner with an organization; CeaseFire/Cure Violence who specializes at this we should refer all matters to them concerning mediating gang and gun conflicts

  • Purposely engage “HI-RISK” people with the intention of doing what other community organizations can do I.E. CeaseFire/Cure Violence.   We seek to be the best at what we do, we should honor our community partners by allowing them to do what they are good at. So we will continue to refer to those community partners

  • We are not into locking up young people, we would like them to have a prosperous future. We are only interested in making sure our young people today are not the prisoners of tomorrow

  • We do not take the law into our own hands. As with the other guidelines we should not be doing what law enforcement can do.

  • We do not interfere with police business. It is against the law to do so

  • We do not carry weapons during S.E.T. activities. In some cases it is against the law in other cases it goes against the message we are trying to send to our young people

  • We do not engage in violent activity outside of self-defense .  

  • We do not encourage others to take negative matters into their own hands.  We do have a message and it is one of peace, we cannot condone people solving their problems with violence or allowing others to solve it in this manner on their behalf.

  • We do not discriminate against race, gender, religion or background. It is morally wrong and against the law         `

  • We do not work against other organizations who work for change . can not get much done when a house is divided

  • We do not share confidential information our clients tell us, it is important to gain confidence in those we work with. Can not gain trust that way

Program
Coordinator

Amiin Davis

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