KNIFE CRIME AND Community Safety project
The Youth Inclusion and Community Safety Project is a community engagement focused project aimed at Haringey’s young people. The project develops existing and new routes for engaging with alienated and at risk youths providing them with first-hand account of self improvement. The project deters and diverts young people from anti-social behaviour and youth violence and motivates them towards personal development and community inclusion.
Project Services
Provide a safe environment and mentoring to build resilience and provide strategies for self-improvements
Empower young people to learn about the impact of knife crime, the law and how it applies to knife crime cases and the realities of prison life.
Engaging with young people to deter them from anti-social behaviour and youth violence
Signpost and provide information of services available in Haringey to young people
Support young people with the opportunity to develop educational and employment accessibility skills to improve life chances.
Assist parents to raise awareness of the drivers of youth violence and the factors that contribute to these social problems.
Youth Mentoring
Our mentoring programmes equip young people with the necessary skills to make informed and positive choices in their lives. We ensure that young people feel supported and create a safe environment where they can speak about their choices, their thought processes and what they want to achieve. This includes supporting young people to participate in discussions and activities which provide a sense of belonging, achievement and self-worth. We create personalised mentoring programmes specific to each young person, setting short- and long-term goals and evaluate progress by ensuring that young people are making meaningful changes to their lives.
Community Engagement and Outreach
Engaging directly with Haringey’s Somali community, we have created a platform to address key community issues such as the disproportionality of young Somali men who have been fatally stabbed in London and in the UK. We continue to engage the Somali community around serious topics such Hate Crime, Serious Youth Violence, Stop and Search, Schools to Prison Pipeline and Hidden Harm, the risk of drugs in the community.
We deliver our early intervention efforts to divert young vulnerable people from becoming excluded from schools, becoming involved in anti-social behaviour and serious youth violence. Our community engagement activities have provided realistic and possible remedies to alleviate worries and concerns of young people, parents and service providers in the borough and beyond in London.