Adrian Stapleton

and

Warren Williams

14:30 Introductions – What Is A Gang?

15:00 Our own Gangs – exercise

15:30 Resilience Mentoring

15:45 Regression exercise

16:00

16:30 End

Who we are

• Community change foundation is a charitable organisation that works with disaffected individuals and families from local communities to reduce offending and re-offending rates, prevent school exclusions and keep young people from becoming NEET.

• The CCF team has extensive frontline experience of working with disaffected people who exhibit violent and challenging behaviour.

• Over 10 of these years were spent as specialist violent Gang Mentors and practitioners working across Manchester.

• CCF has trained Mentors, Mediators and Conflict Resolution Specialists and we offer these services as part of our core business.

What is a Gang ?

• The term gang is applied to many groups, the media portrays gangs in many different ways, mainly negative.

• So, there is a clear need for a relevant definition

Definition of a Street Gang A relatively durable predominately street based group

of young people who:

See themselves (and are seen by others) as a discernible group

Engage in a range of criminal activity and violence And/or

Identify with or lay claim over territory

Have some form of identifying structural features

Are in conflict with other or similar gangs. www.centreforsocialiustice.org.uk

A Gang Member:•Is someone who has self-identified themselves as being a member of a gang (as above), e.g. through verbal statements, tattoos, correspondence, graffiti etc, and this is corroborated by police, partner agencies, or community intelligence.

A Gang Associate:•Is someone who offends with gang members (as above); or who is associated by police, partner agencies, or community intelligence, with gang members; or who has displayed, through conduct or behaviour, a specific desire or intent to become a member of a gang.

In groups think of Groups/Gangs that you have been involved in

Bullying

Protection

Status

Money

Friends

Lack of Role Models

Bereavement/Death

Prison

Location

Perception Vision of Self Follower Negative influences Family Girls Poverty Truancy Anti-social Behaviour Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Serious injuries

Lengthy prison sentences (IPP)

Mental illness

Quality of life

Family Breakdown

Death/Bereavement

• A non-fatal Shooting Costs £70,000 to tax payer within 1 hour of it taking place.

• The Gooch Gang murder trial involving Colin Joyce and Lee Amos cost estimated £5 Million

• £120,000 per year to keep a CAT A prisoner in Custody.

• Murder investigation costs an estimated £1.4 million to the tax payer.

Since 1991, 74 people have been shot dead in Greater Manchester and Trafford.

43 of these 74 murders were gang related.

How We Mentor

The resilience model

• What is resilience

• The concept of resilience comes from

physics and describes a quality of a material

to regain its original shape after being bent,

compressed or stretched. With regard to

children, this can be defined as a child's

ability to cope and do well in life in spite of

having had to face a number of difficulties.

Regression

• Regression is an important part of a mentors tool kit that we at CCF use in our work with the client group.

• Being able to place yourself in the mentee’s shoes or to at least be able to empathise with them to a degree helps in cementing the relationship.

• Exercise

• I would like you all to think back to when you were 17 and tell me what was important to you at the time and what did you think about adults.

6 Functions of

Mentoring

• Establish Trust

• Offer Tailored Advice

• Introduce Alternatives

• To challenge

• To Motivate

• To Encourage Initiative

Points to discuss

• Boundaries, understanding the type of role that you have with your client; influential or enforcement

• Credibility; do you have credibility with your clients

• Understanding; do you know the environment your clients are living in…

• Needs; what are your clients needs, lifestyle change, education, employment or training etc.

• Do they want to change; is your client ready for change?…

• Focusing on positive outcomes

Case study

• A. is a high profile gang member

• Involved in serious gang violence

• Perpetrator of domestic violence

• At significant risk in the Manchester area

• In receipt of numerous OSMAN warnings.

• Deemed to be problematic and highly volatile by XTF

• Never previously engaged with any services

• engaged through outreach practices

Intervention

• I Engaged A through mentoring contacts, we got to know each other.

• I had credibility with A as he knew my background, I had mentored an individual who he trusted and achieved a positive outcome.

• I had an understanding of the lifestyle that A was currently living.

• We discussed A’s needs, he expressed his desire to positively change in his life.

Outcome

• I helped A to relocate to another area

• Attended 1-2-1 target mentoring contacts with him (focussed on change)

• Assisted A to manage/complete his probation licence.

• Helped A to obtain his CSCS card

• Helped A with job search and took him to job interview on building site.

• Maintained mentoring contact with A

Contact Details

Address: 28 Cornbrook Court, Old Trafford,

Manchester, M15 4EP

Phone: 01618729220

Email: admin@ccf-org.com