Neighborhood Troubled Youth Follow Up Program

We will network residents, neighborhood associations, businesses, churches, youth leaders, and Pastors, to follow up on troubled youth in the targeted area.

  We will speak with residents block by block on criminal issues concerning youth on their street and relay information of criminal activity to the groups or persons, to help follow up and to speak with these individuals to encourage good citizenship within their neighborhood. 

This plan will have 4 tiers of community neighborhood involvement.

• The first tier would be continual canvassing of the targeted zone for the express purpose to talk to, relate to, and to survey people in the neighborhoods. This would be done by the NATs.

Canvassing would consist of literature not only from Aim 4 Peace, but from the neighborhood association, and Churches that have on going crime prevention activities in the targeted zone.

Part of the communication would to encourage people in the neighborhood to attend their neighborhood association meetings, Community Action Network meetings or a venue to which they can express themselves freely about the crime activity in their neighborhood.

• The second tier would be that, in these settings people in the neighborhood, may be able to identify trouble youth that maybe on their streets.  Through these information exchanges, which may be done in private, information would be passed along to participating clergy that are in the targeted zone and the A4P intervention workers.

• The third tier would be that, the clergy would be the first to respond to the youth and their family to bring some type of guidance and direction to the youth’s life and their family’s lives.

We would give the clergy resources such as: educational programs, job opportunities, free food sources, free clothing sources, private tutoring and transportation (bus passes if applicable) to give to the youth’s family so, that every opportunity can be done to help and save this young persons life.

• The forth tier would be to send in a A4P intervention worker to the youths home to speak to him or her to make a connection in that relates to the prevention of any criminal activity.

This program is designed to encourage, help, and mentor individuals with information on spirituality, jobs, and education.  This program is also designed to discourage any type of criminal activity.