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1 results foundAuthor: Big Lottery Fund Title: Preventing serious youth violence - what works? Summary: Voluntary and community sector (VCS) groups across the country work with children and young people who have experienced trauma or conflict from a very young age and their work makes a significant contribution to efforts to prevent young people from getting involved in violent lifestyles. Many work with parents and communities to give them the skills and understanding they need to manage risks. Others provide early interventions for young people, ensuring that they have good mental wellbeing, resilience, and a healthy, stable, and supportive framework, which enable them to make positive choices and divert them from criminal activities. Others help ex-offenders and gang members to leave their past behind by providing support and finding positive alternatives. Their work is vital, because serious youth violence has potentially devastating consequences not only for young people themselves, but also for their families, victims and wider communities. Statistically, violence "remains one of the greatest threats to life of young people". Yet we see younger and younger children, including primary school children under the age of ten, involved in risky behaviours and gangs. These young people are extremely vulnerable and many have experienced adversity from a very young age. The Big Lottery Fund is one of the distributors of National Lottery funding and the largest community funder in the UK. Last year we awarded L713m of good cause money raised by National Lottery players to more than 13,000 community projects. This includes funding for VCS organisations to support their work with children, young people and families across the country to find ways out of crime and violence. The VCS can play a unique role here through the trust, connections, relationships and knowledge of what works in preventing and supporting young people involved in violence. This paper summarises key learning from the sector on what works in addressing youth violence. We highlight examples of both proven and promising practice from charities across the UK and share our experiences as a funder about the principles that have worked for us in planning, designing and implementing funding programmes in this field. The paper isn't exhaustive, but gives a flavour of the key messages and some examples to illustrate these messages. The paper includes case studies as well as evidence from evaluations, academic reviews and international research. We have covered projects and services that have been funded by us and other funders. We have not covered initiatives led by, or focussed on, law enforcement. Details: London: The Author, 2018. 29p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 15, 2019 at: https://media.biglotteryfund.org.uk/media/documents/BLF_KL18-12_SeriousViolence.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://media.biglotteryfund.org.uk/media/documents/BLF_KL18-12_SeriousViolence.pdf Shelf Number: 154632 Keywords: Community-Based Programs Delinquency Prevention Gangs Knife Crime Violence Prevention Violent Crime Volunteer GroupsYouth Violence |