You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives
Our best selves tell us that ‘there but for the grace of God… ‘ and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force
Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.
My job isn’t to fix or rescue or to save. It’s to accompany, see people, listen to them.
It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never
Gang members aren’t frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.
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