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Duncan, Dale – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
Franki Lodge and her coworkers help run Toronto's Inner City Outtripping Centre (ICOC), an outdoor education program aimed at innercity youth. Started in 1995 to reduce conflict between rival gangs in Christie Pits Park, the organization has since grown to include the Paddle and Picnic program (day camps where kids, teens and even seniors canoe up…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Recreational Activities, Day Camp Programs, Police
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Spergel, Irving A.; Grossman, Susan F. – Social Work, 1997
Reports preliminary evidence on an innovative approach to gang violence which relies on community mobilization, social intervention, suppression, opportunities provision, organizational development, and targeting. Describes program processes and outcomes. The project involved teams of community youth workers, tactical police officers, adult…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Intervention, Juvenile Gangs, Police
McGee, Jerry C.; Knowles, N. Jane – 1994
This paper describes how one Texas school district, the Aldine Independent School District (ISD), created its own police department as an effort to control school-related crime. Formed in 1990, the Aldine Police Department (ADP) entitles officers to issue citations to students or make arrests according to their assessment of the situation and with…
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Juvenile Gangs