Sentences with phrase «of youth gangs»

This course is recommended for health care professionals, especially addiction counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, and nurses who seek knowledge about an overview of youth gangs.

Considerations include the age of pupils, the areas that pupils live in, and local knowledge such as the presence of youth gangs.

Wilding involved nights of insane revelry, violence, and destruction of anything and anyone in the path of a youth gang.

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these gang youths» understanding of the problem [of the ghetto] went deeper than their reaction to unjust social conditions.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

... was closed after a gang of nearly a thousand youths entered the Grand Hotel in pursuit of two leather - clad Rockers South Coast police have warned that if the fights between rival gangs of Mods and Rockers continue stricter security measures will be enforced at railway stations both in London and on the south...

The context of the speech was the previous month's riots across England, largely perpetrated by groups and gangs of apparently nihilistic youth, who seemed on the whole to be enjoying themselves rather than protesting about anything - except perhaps the meaningless of the world - view bequeathed to them.

They weren't «children,» they were «youths,» which means they possibly could have been an unruly gang of punks.

In El Salvador, Valentin planted a new church near the city of Santa Ana, setting his sights on the crowds of youth who were being drawn into the violent gangs overtaking his country.

It will be a program that will send influential coaches from a variety of different sports to talk to gang members or kids who have been identified by authorities as at - risk youth.

With him losing his edge and then his place, the passing carousel stutters, the wooden horses jerk and stall, and gangs of Chileans and Dutch youths are able to charge in and set fire to the whole thing.

«The kids tell me they want to get out of the gangs, «Notree said, adding that he knew five neighborhood youths who were killed over the summer.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

Government plans to cut down on gangs in the wake of the summer riots could see youths banned from walking «aggressive dogs» or congregating in certain areas.

It became clear that in Marseille, a deprived city where England played Russia last Saturday, gangs of local youths were roaming around, seeking supporters to attack.

The funding for programs that would divert at - risk youth from gang life is in addition to $ 16 million that had previously been announced for anti-gang efforts on Long Island as part of the 2018 - 19 state budget.

One of the most sinister instruments behind Kenya's 2007/8 post-election violence was the Mungiki, a criminal gang that claims to represent the neglected Kikuyu youth.

«What is absolutely important is to teach our youth, who are losing the benefit of education, who have lost their revolutionary fervor, who moved into gangs and violence, that we were once them,» he urged.

And perhaps most notably there was Howard Beach, which spawned angry protests by the city's black residents - three black men whose car had broken down in the all - white area were attacked by a gang of white youths.

«We are disheartened to hear the Governor has decided to implement a School to Deportation Pipeline that will ultimately make all youth and communities less safe,» Rahsmia Zatar, executive director of STRONG YOUTH, a gang violence prevention group based in Uniondale, said in a stateyouth and communities less safe,» Rahsmia Zatar, executive director of STRONG YOUTH, a gang violence prevention group based in Uniondale, said in a stateYOUTH, a gang violence prevention group based in Uniondale, said in a statement.

«Disconnected youth are often at a higher risk of dropping out of school, unemployment, incarceration and gang recruitment.

Mr Brown said: «Since Jacqui Smith and I took over the responsibilities that we have, we have been working urgently to examine what more we can do to heal the problems of guns, of knives, of gangs in our country, and more generally the problem of youth disorder.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today announced he is introducing new legislation, the «Knockout Assault Deterrent Act», to protect innocent bystanders from being victimized by the so - called «Knockout Game» — a brutal new trend whereby gangs of youths target unsuspecting people and sucker - punch them in an attempt to make them unconscious — in some cases causing serious injury and even death.

Curtis Sliwa, founder and CEO of the Guardian Angels, called on community residents, Guardian Angels members and youth programs to work together to fight the MS - 13 street gang's violence in areas such as Brentwood, Central Islip and North Bay Shore.

Public perceptions of the rising tide of knife crime and youth gang violence in London have reached such a pitch that Boris needs to be equally clear, ruthless and relentless in his fight against crime in London.

«We are very concerned that this rash of recent killings of young people will drive us back to the old days,» said State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who blamed much of the violence on a growing problem with youth gangs in Upper Manhattan.

For example, gang prevention programs targeting students in the 6th or 7th grade would be a good use of resources because most youth who join gangs begin in their early teenage years, and as early as ages 10 and 11.

The study found that only 8 percent of those youth identified themselves as gang members.

Published in the Journal of Youth Studies (Taylor & Francis), the research examines the organisation as well as drug trafficking of Red Gang, a clan operating in the highly deprived area of Rose Borough in London.

Curiously, the picture painted by the Red Gang's members didn't match the one provided by the interviewed practitioners, who described the clan as a hierarchical organisation driven by a strict code of conduct and set on recruiting vulnerable youths in its ranks.

Adult gangs were found to be a combination of carryovers from youth gang involvement and those initiated into gangs as adults.

A owner of my own youth program that works with at - risk kids, single parent homes, and kids in gangs!

Sitting outside with my back to the sun, I noticed that the shadow cast by each clear lens of my glasses was equally as dark as that cast by the frame and A scientist was left with blood dripping from his head after being attacked by a gang of youths as he cycled home.

Pauli is training to be a security guard, but gets stripped, then relentlessly beaten and assaulted by a gang of youths.

In 1960s Oklahoma a sensitive youth gets in over his head when his best friend kills a member of a rival gang.

In The World's End, Edgar Wright's best film to date, Gary takes the same gang of gents back home to try to recapture the glory days of youth.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Here, Wright regular (and co-writer) Simon Pegg stars as an alcoholic, middle - aged man - child who brings his gang of childhood friends back together (including actors Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) in hopes of finally completing an epic pub - crawl they'd unsuccessfully attempted as youths.

When she's kidnapped by the local Chinese gang, Jack and Wang follow after them, only to discover that she's been chosen by a mysterious wizard named Lo Pan (James Hong) to serve as his very own Fountain of Youth.

The pitch: Sentenced to six years in prison, a 19 year - old Arab youth ascends the power ranks of the reigning gang, learning to fend for himself in the process.

Also focused on the access to education for communities of color, The Pushouts, directed by Katie Galloway and co-directed by Dawn Valadez, tells the story of professor and author Dr. Victor Rios, a former gang member, who attempts to inspire the youth in neighborhoods similar to those where he grew up, so that they can change their personal paths in spite of a system that sets them up for failure.

Like Lean on Pete, Arnold's film follows a rootless teenager in search of some form of familial belonging — in her case, with a gang of likewise aimless youths hawking magazine subscriptions across the midwest — but is supersized and expressively unruly where Haigh's is contained and watchful.

The Toronto - based songwriter - producer Austin Garrick is one - half (alongside vocalist Bronwyn Griffin) of the electronic pop duo Electric Youth, whose full - length debut album, Innerworld, was released in September 2014 by Secretly Canadian / Last Gang R

The Toronto - based songwriter - producer Austin Garrick is one - half (alongside vocalist Bronwyn Griffin) of the electronic pop duo Electric Youth, whose full - length debut album, Innerworld, was released in September 2014 by Secretly Canadian / Last Gang Records.

It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.

The report, «Youth Violence: Gangs on Main Street, U.S.A.» studies the increase in gang activity in cities with populations of 50,000 to 150,000, and describes the responses of four cities: Las Cruces, N.M.; Peoria, Ill.; Topeka, Kan.; and Yakima, Wash..

The case of youth is difficult in particular, and in the Central American region it is notable the presence of very dangerous and violent gangs.

Nearly one - third of 94 small cities surveyed report that escalating gang activity and youth violence is a «major problem,» according to a new publication from the Pew Partnership For Civic Change.

The findings also show slight increases in the proportion of school leaders worried about sexting, drugs and radicalisation for their pupils, as well as gangs and youth violence.