It felt quite odd to ring my own local council to ask for examples of
initiatives against youth crime.
Not exact matches
That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests
against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of
initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless
youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.
He has served on the U.S. Presidential
initiative, The National Campaign
Against Youth Violence and is a consultant to The United States Secret Service, including its collaborative Safe Schools
Initiative with the U.S. Department of Education.
San Antonio, Texas, has employed a variety of
initiatives including after - school programs and penalties
against youth (and their parents) for carrying weapons, painting graffiti, or violating
youth curfews in an anti-crime partnership between community residents and police.