Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) “Street Violence Ruins Lives” Project
This project's parent organization is London Sport Ltd.
It operates in United Kingdom
It uses Football (Soccer)
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More about Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) “Street Violence Ruins Lives” Project
CACT’s “Street Violence Ruins Lives” project aims to increase awareness and develop a greater understanding of street crime, gangs and resolving group conflict with young people aged 7+ and adults. It works in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams, Community Safety Partnership, Youth Offending Teams, Anti-Social Behaviour Teams and private sector organisations including Axis Europe and Laing O’Rourke.
The project itself is broadly split across four areas. Schools: - Schools across both boroughs receive educational resource packs produced by missdorothy.com and funded by the Metropolitan Police Service. Within the boroughs, links have been established with the families of victims and an expression of willingness has been voiced by them to support the roll-out of the project by presenting about the effects gun, knife and gang-related crime has had on them and their families.
Victim Care and Support:
- Working with partners, victims will be identified and supported through the process. Victim/offender mediation or restorative justice will be offered bringing together victims and offenders face-to-face if suitable. Prison Work.
- Working alongside our prison scheme delivering accredited qualifications to offenders, the project will provide workshops on victim empathy to targeted inmates who have previously been involved in gun, knife and/or gang related crime. The aim is to break the cycle of re-offending among young people and providing support during the resettlement of offenders potentially leading to meaningful employment within CACT. Estate based sessions:
- With the aim of reducing knife, gun and gang-related crime among young people, the project supports our existing programme working in areas highlighted as ‘at risk’ of many social exclusion factors (low educational attainment, low household incomes etc) and those with high levels of crime and disorder and anti-social behaviour.