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Essence Youth Mentoring, Birmingham
December 18, 2024
“Right now, there’s gang violence happening in the Newtown area and many of our girls and young men are scared to come out,” says Kasharel Belle. For Kasharel and her co-founder, Natina Whitter, who runs Essence Youth Mentoring from The Lighthouse Young People’s Centre in Birmingham, the impact of local violence is an ongoing challenge.…
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Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2024
November 20, 2024
This is YEF’s third annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed over 10,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence. Amid the everyday pressures of adolescence — school, friendships and self-discovery — many teenagers are also having to navigate a more troubling issue: violence. This year’s…
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New YEF Guidance helps police and VRUs tackle serious violence with Focused Deterrence
March 5, 2025
First pioneered on the streets of Boston in the 1990s to address rising gun crime, Focused Deterrence has since been adopted around the world as an effective strategy to reduce serious violence. Today, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has published new guidance to help police forces, Violence Reduction Units (VRUs) and statutory services implement Focused…
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