Anti-Youth Violence

Project: Anti-Youth Violence
Aim: To challenge young people's perceptions of youth violence
Funding: Schools and youth clubs pay for each session

The Anti-Youth Violence project was developed in response to the number of young people dying from violent youth crime.

The national programme involves workshops and assemblies with young people in schools, youth offending teams and youth clubs across England, which aim to get them to think differently about getting involved in violent crime. It works with young people at risk of turning to violent crime and focuses not just on knives, but also on gangs, postcodism and guns.

The initiative gets young people to debate the current climate surrounding youth violence and explores the negative lifestyle of gang culture. Project workers also ask young people to study real-life case studies of youth violence and to analyse their personal values relating to postcodism.