Youth Violence

Our teenagers are being influenced more and more by the advent and appeal of being in a gang. On Tuesday 17th February youths entered Hutt Valley High School wearing gang colours and started a large brawl with students. The gang showed up because one of the students was allegedly involved in a fight with one of the gang members previously. An innocent girl trying to escape the conflict was hit on the head with a rock and started bleeding.

We need to stop this violence and these gangs of our own children before anything more happens!

What we're doing about it

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Around here we don't just talk about issues, we come up with solutions and do something about it!

Solutions

Step One - Terminate Truancy

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First thing to do is to make sure all school kids are in school during school hours. Through our ongoing Terminate Truancy campaign (http://www.cepnz.co.nz/terminate.html), truant-free-zones are being established in CBDs of towns throughout the co... see details

Mentor Programmes

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part of the problem is also part of the solution. We are in a generation of absentee fathers and a lack of positive role models in youths life is causing them to gravitate to anything resembling a father figure. Whether that is gangs, media icons ... see details

What people have to say

Andy

11:22 PM, Thursday 02 April 2009

"More so because of my sexual identity, but its obviously bad if kids i don't even know can abuse me in the street because of how i dress and who i'm with."