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From YouTube: NewsMakers: Preventing Violence and Gang Involvement
Description
A segment from the NewsMakers program produced by Arlington Virginia Network featuring the Town Hall Meeting on Preventing Violence and Gang Involvement that took place at Kenmore Middle School in February 2008.
A
Next,
we
join
community
leaders,
parents
and
neighbors
for
the
town
meeting
on
preventing
violence
and
gang
involvement,
county
staff,
volunteers,
law
enforcement,
families
and
members
of
a
variety
of
prevention.
Outreach
and
community
organizations
met
us
to
raise
awareness
and
share
positive
alternative
or
arlington
youth.
But.
B
Into
the
very
serious
issue-
and
we
have
got
to
raise
awareness
of
gaining
interest
in
our
community
and
on
it,
we
wish
we
didn't
have
any
gang
to
the
shore
we
wish
we
did
not,
but
just
wishing
it
is
not
enough.
We
have
got
to
inform
ourselves
about
resources
and
services.
They
are
available
to
our
families
in
our
community
and
by
focusing
on
gang
prevention
and
and
showing
our
kids
positive
alternatives
to
gang
activity.
B
We
are
also
creating
are
the
leaders
of
tomorrow
that
will
also
carry
on
the
tradition
or
arlington
values,
so
I
look
forward
to
enjoying
the
rest
of
the
prom
participating
in
the
rest
of
the
program.
This
morning,
I
appreciate
again
all
the
organizers
and
less
than
spend
a
morning
here,
focusing
on
attention
to
prevention,
to
prevent
youth
violence
in
gang
involvement,
look
forward
to
be
able
to
rest
of
the
program.
Thank
you
very
much.
C
B
You
know
they'll
give
this
alternatives
and
some
don't
even
cause
a
whole
lot
of
money
and
if
I
don't
even
close
some
money,
some
elective
ities
are
already
organized
and
we
just
have
to
steer
folks
in
that
direction
because,
after
all
for
me,
it's
very
important
that
people
have
options
you
know,
so
they
can
then
pick
and
weak
and
steer
them
and
encourage
them
and
help
them
find
those
resources.
So
they
can
detect
the
science
of
gang
activity
in
the
kids.
B
C
B
Haven't
born
and
raised
in
el
salvador
and
coming
to
this
country
at
age
13
I
was
in
culture
shock
and
I
could
have
easily
fallen
in
the
wrong
side.
You
know
to
me
I
think
one
of
the
things
that
saved
me
from
going
into
a
negative
spiral
was
soccer
as
I
play
soccer,
and
does
that
get
me
give
me
something
to
do
after
school
research.
D
B
E
Really
not
unlike
the
relationships
we
all
share
with
the
groups
that
we
belong
to.
I
belong
to
I,
have
the
honor
working
with
a
small
unit
in
the
thin
of
the
police
department,
and
we
have
the
same
relationships
that
they're
seeking
and
creating
when
they
do
these
things,
and
many
of
you
belong
to
small
groups,
and
you
probably
feel
that
same
way
after
you
complete
a
project
with
that
group
or
it.
You
know
you
work
hard
and
now
you've
created
a
relationship,
a
working
relationship
with
that
person.
E
D
D
B
Have
shown
that
prevention
is
the
way
to
reduce
youth
violence
and
gang
activity
in
the
putative
approaches,
suppression.
You
know
we
need
to
prevent
kids
from
joining
gangs
in
the
first
place
and
that's
what
we're
here
today
to
find
out
a
little
more
about
what
the
signs
of
gang
activity
are,
how
parents
and
our
community
in
general
can
get
more
information
identifying
those
signs,
and
what
can
we
provide
our
youth
as
alternatives
to
gang
activity?
We.
D
Want
to
make
sure
that
all
our
kids
have
what
they
need
to
avoid
risk
behaviors
and
to
grow
into
the
healthy,
caring
participating
adults
we
want
them
to
be,
but
the
data
also
tells
a
story
when
we
put
our
community
efforts
together
when
we
work
hard
at
something,
we
do
make
a
difference.
When
we
pay
attention
to
prevention,
we
can
get
things
done.