The backbone of our work is our peer-led approach; developing and using people with lived experience; those who have come from the same communities or have similar backgrounds or experiences to the young people we are working with.
Tackling serious violence requires a radical approach – adopting what has gone before will not improve the situation. We aim to represent something different through our peer-led approach. What’s more we are independent, non-judgmental and not perceived as part of authority.
As well as our intervention work, the SOS+ programme delivers preventative sessions in educational settings on violence, vulnerability and exploitation. We use trained professionals with lived experience of the criminal justice system to de-glamorise gang involvement and expose the harsh realities of crime and violence.
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